Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard was forced by senior figures of her Labor party to open up her job to a vote — known as a spill in Australian politics — but no one ultimately came forward to challenge her, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Said Gillard: ”The whole business is completely at an end, it has ended now.”
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