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The seemingly unending drama of the Australian Labor party’s internal leadership battles is set to be dramatised, with actress Rachel Griffiths signed on to play Julia Gillard.

Based on controversial book, The Stalking of Julia Gillard, by the Canberra press gallery journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh, the drama will focus on how the media was complicit in Kevin Rudd’s repeated undermining of Gillard when she was prime minister.

Richard Keddie, the film’s producer, has revealed that Gillard herself is very supportive of the movie, which he says will dramatise the former prime minister’s “trial by media”.

“I know Julia well and I’ve chatted to her about it – she is really happy about it,” he told Guardian Australia.

“We’re in a new media world and we’re not coping. I think someone like Kevin Rudd was incredible in feeding the media. He had them under a clever control – which is questionable. This is the story of the trial by media of Julia.”

Rachel Griffiths said she was thrilled to be portraying Australia's first female prime minister and looked forward to exploring “the private aspects of her remarkable term”.

“I believe that the creative and intellectual capacity of the team involved will produce a stunning drama that will reframe this historic period in our cultural and political life,” she said.

Walsh argued in her book that press gallery journalists, including Fairfax Media’s Peter Hartcher, Nine’s Laurie Oakes, News Corp’s Paul Kelly and The Conversation’s Michelle Grattan, were too quick to run stories fed to them by Rudd, but her thesis has been rejected by other commentators.

"There is a great sense of injustice in the community at Julia Gillard's treatment by Labor white-anters and the media,” Walsh said on the announcement that her book would be dramatised.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/08/rachel-griffiths-to-play-julia-gillard

 

crap ....

What a load of of self-serving codswollop!!

of course not...

Compared to the rabid nasty idiots running the place now, she was doing a more than decent job, if not under par at times on certain issues.

That the mediocre mass mainstream media ganged up on her and gave free kicks to Tony Abbott is verifiable. 

Now, the media is up in arms about Tony being a little shit. We knew that he was, way before. And this morning we have crummy headlines coming from Joe Hockey telling us that "in order to improve productivity, living standards might have to fall"... Idiots.

stripping the bulldust...

 

With the change of government I'm sure you're a lot happier about the prospects for the economy and its management, and a lot more confident of a sympathetic hearing from the new government. I wouldn't be so sure.

I suspect the mining industry's lobbying success is reaching its zenith as we speak. It won't surprise me if, looking back on the life of the Abbott government, you come to realise the big gains the industry made actually occurred under the Labor government. They occurred no thanks to Labor, and all thanks to the Coalition, but they occurred in reaction to the policies of Labor as part of Tony Abbott's successful four-year campaign to fight his way back into office.Why did Abbott immediately oppose the mining tax and promise to repeal it? Because he genuinely believed it would wreck the mining industry and do damage to the wider economy? I doubt it.

He did it primarily because he saw opposing the tax as a popular cause and was hoping for a lot of monetary support from the big miners in the 2010 election.

Why did Abbott set his face against the carbon pricing scheme? Because it was the price of getting the backing within the party that allowed him to wrest the Liberal leadership from Malcolm Turnbull and because he could see what a popular cause it would be to oppose this ''great big new tax on everything''.Now, I have no doubt that keeping his promises to get rid of the mining tax and the carbon tax will be among his priorities. But my point is this: having delivered so handsomely for the mining industry, I doubt if he'll feel in any way indebted to the miners.

Indeed, he may well feel he's the one that's owed. Certainly, he'll feel the miners have had enough favours to be going on with.

And it won't surprise me if that's the attitude other industries take: that the miners have had their turn and it's time to give other industries a go.Does this analysis seem cynical? Sorry, it's just being brutally realistic. We all pursue our self-interest, but we all cloak our self-interest in arguments about how this would be in the best interest of the economy. All I'm doing is stripping away the bulldust.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/selfinterest-has-killed-off-any-hope-of-real-reform-20131108-2x73s.html#ixzz2k5qzbPIM


Gus: unfortunately, Ross Gittins could be off the mark on this one... Abbott is a self serving awkward idiot who plays the populist card at all time, without remorse. Yesterday I heard one of his ministers talking about "rewarding the aspirationals"... I have news for you, minister: everyone or at least most of us are aspirationals, but we don't have the financial tools nor the ethics to rob the place... By this aspirational crapstick, we are reminded hard work is never enough. We would possibly need to know how to do fiddles bordering on criminal activities to step up one gear... The rewards for those who can't make the cut, above the aspirational plimsol line, get hit on the head and pay more than they can afford. The rich get away with the loot... 
For miners. the removals of environmental protections is enough "rewards"... Removing the mining tax is barely a drop of cream...

 

the cast...

 

But who to play the players?

Kevin Rudd would be cast perfectly by Chris Lilley. After all, Rudd had the whole tin-ear, hair-flicking thing happening first. If you were after someone with more gravitas, maybe Russell Crowe – resurrecting the look he had in A Beautiful Mind. If not available – Josh Thomas (with ageing make-up).

Ben Mendelsohn has the sort of nobbly, angular face that might work as Bill Shorten.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/julia-gillard-movie-cast

Actually the man in the street suggested a dead actor to play Albo... I though that was a bit mean but the actor in question was quite funny... In regard to Abbott, the rottweiler is the perfect disguise though we can notch it up to the Devil Himself...


 

kokoda joe and kev naked — plus clive's selflessness...

Instead we had Rudd's breakfast TV buddy, Joe Hockey, recalling jolly tales of reciprocal nudity on the Kokoda Track and even finding some of the emotion that seemed to be missing in the boilerplate best wishes of Rudd's one-time allies.

It fell to the new boy of the 44th Parliament, the always entertaining Clive Palmer, to speak truth to power. Or to speak to anyone, really, who'd listen to the bloke whose dinner table conversation runs the gamut from the Greens as a front for CIA black ops against the coalmining industry, to dinosaurs.

Clive, who will surely be a magnificent adornment to our public life, expressed sympathy for the one-and-a-half time PM who had been cut down, he said, by the savage slander of Murdoch's media enforcers.

Rupe himself couldn't be reached for comment before we went to print, and because I didn't really try, but I'm sure he'd have spoken truthfully, too.

''Rudd? That bastard? What'd he ever do for me?''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/kevin-rudds-former-foes-leave-it-to-labor-mps-to-add-fondness-to-farewell-20131114-2xjmh.html#ixzz2keXH5zah


That's all, folks.... (Loony Tune music, maestro!)...

not keating the musical...

TV networks have rejected a telemovie starring Rachel Griffiths as Australia's first female prime minister because "everyone hates Julia Gillard; no one is remotely interested in her". 

That's the view of one major broadcaster, according producer Richard Keddie. 

In an exclusive TV Tonight report, Keddie said he would re-work the project as a cinema release.

The respected producer – who has made high-rating political telemovies and documentaries for both commercial and public broadcasters – said the networks seemed curiously uninterested.

"All the broadcasters said, 'No way' to the Julia film," he said. 

"I got told unequivocally I couldn't even get [the telemovies] Hawke or Curtin made these days."

The drama was originally based on Kerry-Anne Walsh's book The Stalking of Julia Gillard. 

However, it has expanded to include more research and a "much bigger narrative", according to TV Tonight. 

"I have a much better story now," Keddie said. 


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/networks-reject-julia-gillard-telemovie-starring-rachel-griffiths-because-everyone-hates-the-former-pm-20150608-ghiq3h.html#ixzz3cQuIDa21

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