Nation says no to Gillard as PM

ninemsn readers have cast doubt on Julia Gillard's future as prime minister, with almost two-thirds declaring they will not vote for her in the looming election.

At 3pm today our homepage poll showed that more than 50,000 readers would not vote for Ms Gillard in the coming federal election, compared to about 23,000 who said they would.

The ninemsn homepage is visited by more than ten million people each month — 70 percent of Australians online.

In addition to the vote, more than a thousand readers have posted comments — revealing a vast mix of reactions — since Ms Gillard was chosen to replace Kevin Rudd in the top job earlier today.

Many readers who said they might have voted for Mr Rudd have hit out at the Labor caucus vote that put his former deputy in power.

"We the Australian people voted in Kevin Rudd as our Prime Minister … who is the group, a handful, of faceless people who can just come in and change our democratically elected Prime Minister???" wrote Holcars from Cranbourne.

"The people elected Kevin07 for PM not Julia-010," agreed Tony G, from Maroubra.

"No one has heard of these Labor factional powerbrokers and the people certainly did not vote for them."


Other readers said they saw the leadership change as a sign of a languishing government.

"The Labor Party is imploding due to panic, incompetence, and absolute naivety … there [sic] gone at the next election anyway and good riddance!" wrote Traveller from Adelaide.

But there was also tremendous support for Ms Gillard from readers eager to celebrate the arrival of the nation’s first female prime minister.

"At last — a female in the top job … GO GALS!!" one unnamed reader said.

"Julia Gillard is strong, articulate, assertive, unflappable, able to hold her own with the opposite gender, determined, with a lot of commonsense," said another reader, Reilme from Bri*****ane.

"NOW is her time! Go Julia."

Others speculated that Ms Gillard would help Labor regain ground in the opinion polls, which have recently shown Labor’s primary vote at as low as 35 percent.

"Julia Gillard will be an excellent Prime Minister who will wipe the floor with Abbott … they must dump Abbott immediately," wrote Peter from Sydney.

There was also a flood of support for Mr Rudd... (Read more: Rudd makes emotional concession)

"I can't think of a Prime Minister who has applied himself more over the first two years in office to making positive change across many key areas with an overall aim of addressing disadvantage and a fairer sharing of this nation's wealth," said Bundybloke.

As many readers pondered a day of firsts, one other milestone also became a hot topic:

"The rise... of the gingers! " wrote Justin from Port Melbourne... (PHOTOS: World's most powerful rangas)

"It's officially 'Ranga Day'," said Reggie in Wonthaggi.

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