If no triumph for Abbott, what about Gillard?

Comments on Michael Gawenda “This is no triumph for Abbott”, 23/08/2010, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Election-2010-hung-parliament-Gillard-Labor-Abbott-pd20100823-8KSTS?OpenDocument&src=sph
While Michael Gawenda's analysis may have some appeal to some, it is nevertheless very one-sided and biased.

Let me state first that I am not political either way, but as a reasonably neutral observer. I have no ill feelings towards Gillard. To the contrary, I think she is a good PM material. But this is an election not just for one person, but for parties.

Yes, it is the fact that the coalition should have won a majority seats but didn't.

But the same is true that a first term government has lost its majority. In that sense, it could be said that it has lost the moral authority to govern. Clearly it has lost the confidence and trust of the voters.

For a first term government that should be fatal, if Australia history is used to judge the result of the election.

On the primary votes, it is bankrupt. The reason it didn’t fare too bad on the two party preferred basis may be some voters didn’t want to admit that they made a mistake in the 2007 election in voting the ALP into government.

While politics is rarely like this, Gillard should have the courage to give up the prime ministership to acknowledge Rudd and her government huge failures.