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2011-03-28

Gillard is in hotter water now

Comments on Dennis Shanahan “Stinging loss sends federal message”, 28/03/2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/stinging-loss-sends-federal-message/story-fn59niix-1226029032745

It now looks that Gillard's rush announcement of a carbon tax at a time when the NSW state election campaign was going on was a big mistake, for two important reasons:

First, it mudded the water of the issue between state and federal policies for not only the election, but also for the ongoing debate on the carbon tax and making it unnecessarily harder for the Gillard government to win the debate and get its policy through the parliament.

Second, it has created further division among Labor, many in NSW will continue to recent Gillard and the federal Labor government for doing it to undermine the NSW Labor election campaigning and to attribute the losses as larger than otherwise.

It is hard to understand why Gillard did it. That seems to further prove that Gillard's lacking leadership skills.

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