It is imperative for Gillard to change policy tack

Comments on Stephen Bartholomeusz “Gillard's Labor must now change policy tack”, 24/06/2010, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Julia-Gillard-Prime-Minister-Kevin-Rudd-leadership-pd20100624-6Q36K?OpenDocument&src=sph
Stephen Bartholomeusz has written an excellent summary of Rudd's and his government's problems and the root of those problems. I agree totally.

While Rudd has seriously flawed leadership style, it is not his communication that has been the problem of his government and his fall from grace from the public, it is his policy designs and his approach to leading the government and managing his ministry and the exclusive processes he preferred.

Gillard has her own challenges, but the likely goodwill from the public towards her and the sympathy for a first term government is likely to afford her an election victory.

She now needs to make changes quickly to three and possibly four important policy areas:

either abandon the RSPT altogether or completely redesign it

recommit to a new climate change policy with possibly a low carbon tax/levy with proceeds returned to everyone residing in Australia

new and urgent guidelines for BER spending that has not been spent yet, and

finally, yes, something on the BNB front: release any relevant information related to the NBN and redesign the NBN package.