Fuck yeah.

[elisi]

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard "played her best hand with a brilliant attack on the Conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, accusing him of being sexist and a misogynist," the Telegraph reports.

Gillard was defending parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper who resigned "just hours after he survived a motion to sack him for lurid text messages he sent to a former staffer."

The video is extraordinary.

(From here.)

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[elisi]

I wanted to applaud at the end.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

Hell -- I wrote the woman a congratulatory letter immediately after I viewed it and got back a copy from the government saying it was delivered. Probably only an aide will see it, but oh well!

[elisi]

Cool. And even if it's 'just' an aide, I'm sure it'll be an important part in a greater whole.