Poor Julia the victim, even when she's backstabbing people

I'm really amazed that this feminist icon trying to show a front that women can do anything a man can do, only better, would even dare to claim to be a victim when it came to stabbing her leader in the back to take his job.

In other interviews she went on to talk about how she didn't really want to do it, she was egged on by her colleagues.

What's amazing is how this most influential woman of 2013 who was held up to be a modern feminist icon, yet when something she does that benefits her also casts her in a negative light, she was pushed into it.

Australia, as not everyone knows, has compulsory voting, so there was no way she could have stayed in power had all her feminist supporters voted and all the evil sexist males had stayed home wouldn't have played out.  On threat of a fine, every registered voter must cast their vote.

What was forgotten was one of her follow up speeches referred to as her 'Men in blue ties' speech in which, to a room full of only women, referred to all men as interchangeable men in blue ties.  So, all women are wonderful individuals, but men are all the same and, therefore, expendable?

The media only focused on the fact that her own male party members also wear blue ties. not that she had, once again, painted all men with the same brush.  It was this speech that she was trying to ride the wave of international recognition, but at home just drove a nail into the coffin of her political career as both men and women were getting fed up with her.

This is a woman who will retire on an indexed pension of about $200,000 a year or, to put it another way, the equivalent of $8 million in Superannuation (or 401k for those in the US) after serving in the position for only three years and three days!  That is on top of the pay rise she gave herself and fellow politicians that saw her overtake Barack Obama in salary.

FYI - at the time, the GDP of Australia was only US$1.38 trillion vs US$14.99 trillion for the United States.

Basically, at the same time as she was running up a massive national debt, she was also looking after her friends.  If only we could all have friends like her!