Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's backers are blaming former leader Kevin Rudd after support for the ruling Labor Party fell to the lowest in four decades a year after he was ousted.
Rudd is being criticized for giving a series of media interviews in the lead up to the anniversary of his axing as prime minister by Gillard on June 24. Some party figures are urging her to fire Rudd, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported yesterday, citing a member of parliament it didn't identify.
Support for Gillard has plunged amid her plan to introduce a carbon tax, which reversed a pre-election pledge not to impose such a levy. Labor support fell 4 percentage points to 27 percent,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, the lowest result in 39 years, according to a Herald/Nielsen poll published June 18.
Gillard's personal approval rating fell 6 percentage points to 37 percent,Replacement Projector Lamp and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. and 60 percent of voters want Rudd to return as party leader. Rob Oakeshott, one of the independent lawmakers whose vote the Labor government relies on to pass laws, said a change in leadership would cause him to review his support agreement with the minority government.
"Where my interest lies is in a stable parliament," he said on Channel 10's "Meet the Press" yesterday. "My handshake is with her" rather than the Labor party, he said.
Gillard and her supporters have dismissed suggestions Rudd could force his way back into the leadership
"I don't judge by the opinion polls, I judge by how I am pursuing my plan for the nation," Gillard told reporters in Brisbane on June 18. "This is about having a plan. I have a plan and am pursuing it with the support of my Labor colleagues."
Backing Gillard
Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union and one of the people who pushed for Rudd's ousting a year ago, said he expects Gillard will be leading Labor into the next general election scheduled for 2013.
"I am sure, I'd bet my house on it, that Julia Gillard will lead Labor to the next election and will have a platform and a record of implementation that will be important," he told Sky News yesterday.
The Sun-Herald cited one Labor "powerbroker," who it didn't identify by name, as saying there are people who would "rather chew their right arm off" than return to Rudd as leader. The same newspaper quoted Rudd as saying he is "set on being the best foreign minister" he can be.
Old Job Back
Rudd in other interviews in recent days has reflected on what he learned from last year's dumping. The opposition says Rudd is mounting a campaign to get his old job back.
"The only thing Kevin Rudd hasn't done is ride a unicycle into question time blowing a vuvuzela demanding the leadership back," the opposition coalition's Christopher Pyne said on Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "Insiders" program yesterday.Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals A vuvuzela is a South African horn instrument that was popular with fans at last year's soccer World Cup in the country.
The coalition widened its lead on a two-party-preferred basis -- which takes into account likely preference allocations -- with 59 percent of voters backing it compared with 41 percent for the Labor government, the poll showed June 18.
The survey was taken June 14-16, little more than a week before the one-year anniversary of Gillard taking over leadership of the party after ousting Rudd, whose slump in opinion polls threatened to make their Labor Party the nation's first one-term government in 80 years.
Rudd stepped down rather than face a party vote. He was appointed foreign minister in September.
Carbon Tax
Gillard is pushing ahead with a plan to implement a carbon tax to reduce emissions and drive investment in renewable and clean energy. The government on June 17 ended meetings with the Greens Party, whose support it needs to pass laws in parliament, with no agreement on the plan.
Gillard on June 18 said the government will invest A$771 million ($819 million) in solar power plants in Chinchilla in Queensland and Moree in New South Wales. The plants will generate enough electricity to support 115,000 homes, she and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said in an e-mailed statement.
Australia has set a target of generating 20 percent of its power from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2020. The two solar plants are expected to be commissioned by the end of 2015, they said.
The government will contribute A$464 million for the Chinchilla project, which is worth about A$1.2 billion. A group led by Areva Solar, a unit of Paris-based Areva SA,What are the top Hemroids treatments? will build the 250-megawatt plant. Construction will create 300 jobs and add A$570 million to the local economy, the ministers said.
Moree Project
A further A$306.5 million will be invested in the Moree project,buy landscape oil paintings online. which is worth an estimated A$923 million, the government said. The 150 megawatt photovoltaic plant will comprise 650,000 panels covering an area of 9 square kilometers, nearly twice the size of any similar operation in the world. Its construction will create another 300 jobs, the ministers said.
BP Solar, Pacific Hydro Pty. and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures will build and operate the Moree plant, Madrid-based Fotowatio said in a separate e-mailed statement. The unit of closely held Fotowatio SL is the majority shareholder of the project, it said.
Treasurer Wayne Swan yesterday said in the past year the government is "continuing to get the policy settings right" and that he is keen to get on with policies such as the carbon tax and reforming taxation on the nation's mineral wealth. He made the comments in an e-mailed note.
Rudd is being criticized for giving a series of media interviews in the lead up to the anniversary of his axing as prime minister by Gillard on June 24. Some party figures are urging her to fire Rudd, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported yesterday, citing a member of parliament it didn't identify.
Support for Gillard has plunged amid her plan to introduce a carbon tax, which reversed a pre-election pledge not to impose such a levy. Labor support fell 4 percentage points to 27 percent,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, the lowest result in 39 years, according to a Herald/Nielsen poll published June 18.
Gillard's personal approval rating fell 6 percentage points to 37 percent,Replacement Projector Lamp and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. and 60 percent of voters want Rudd to return as party leader. Rob Oakeshott, one of the independent lawmakers whose vote the Labor government relies on to pass laws, said a change in leadership would cause him to review his support agreement with the minority government.
"Where my interest lies is in a stable parliament," he said on Channel 10's "Meet the Press" yesterday. "My handshake is with her" rather than the Labor party, he said.
Gillard and her supporters have dismissed suggestions Rudd could force his way back into the leadership
"I don't judge by the opinion polls, I judge by how I am pursuing my plan for the nation," Gillard told reporters in Brisbane on June 18. "This is about having a plan. I have a plan and am pursuing it with the support of my Labor colleagues."
Backing Gillard
Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union and one of the people who pushed for Rudd's ousting a year ago, said he expects Gillard will be leading Labor into the next general election scheduled for 2013.
"I am sure, I'd bet my house on it, that Julia Gillard will lead Labor to the next election and will have a platform and a record of implementation that will be important," he told Sky News yesterday.
The Sun-Herald cited one Labor "powerbroker," who it didn't identify by name, as saying there are people who would "rather chew their right arm off" than return to Rudd as leader. The same newspaper quoted Rudd as saying he is "set on being the best foreign minister" he can be.
Old Job Back
Rudd in other interviews in recent days has reflected on what he learned from last year's dumping. The opposition says Rudd is mounting a campaign to get his old job back.
"The only thing Kevin Rudd hasn't done is ride a unicycle into question time blowing a vuvuzela demanding the leadership back," the opposition coalition's Christopher Pyne said on Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "Insiders" program yesterday.Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals A vuvuzela is a South African horn instrument that was popular with fans at last year's soccer World Cup in the country.
The coalition widened its lead on a two-party-preferred basis -- which takes into account likely preference allocations -- with 59 percent of voters backing it compared with 41 percent for the Labor government, the poll showed June 18.
The survey was taken June 14-16, little more than a week before the one-year anniversary of Gillard taking over leadership of the party after ousting Rudd, whose slump in opinion polls threatened to make their Labor Party the nation's first one-term government in 80 years.
Rudd stepped down rather than face a party vote. He was appointed foreign minister in September.
Carbon Tax
Gillard is pushing ahead with a plan to implement a carbon tax to reduce emissions and drive investment in renewable and clean energy. The government on June 17 ended meetings with the Greens Party, whose support it needs to pass laws in parliament, with no agreement on the plan.
Gillard on June 18 said the government will invest A$771 million ($819 million) in solar power plants in Chinchilla in Queensland and Moree in New South Wales. The plants will generate enough electricity to support 115,000 homes, she and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson said in an e-mailed statement.
Australia has set a target of generating 20 percent of its power from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2020. The two solar plants are expected to be commissioned by the end of 2015, they said.
The government will contribute A$464 million for the Chinchilla project, which is worth about A$1.2 billion. A group led by Areva Solar, a unit of Paris-based Areva SA,What are the top Hemroids treatments? will build the 250-megawatt plant. Construction will create 300 jobs and add A$570 million to the local economy, the ministers said.
Moree Project
A further A$306.5 million will be invested in the Moree project,buy landscape oil paintings online. which is worth an estimated A$923 million, the government said. The 150 megawatt photovoltaic plant will comprise 650,000 panels covering an area of 9 square kilometers, nearly twice the size of any similar operation in the world. Its construction will create another 300 jobs, the ministers said.
BP Solar, Pacific Hydro Pty. and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures will build and operate the Moree plant, Madrid-based Fotowatio said in a separate e-mailed statement. The unit of closely held Fotowatio SL is the majority shareholder of the project, it said.
Treasurer Wayne Swan yesterday said in the past year the government is "continuing to get the policy settings right" and that he is keen to get on with policies such as the carbon tax and reforming taxation on the nation's mineral wealth. He made the comments in an e-mailed note.
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