"And I'm very sorry I have forgotten your name..." This is how the satire skit of the Australian Labor Party starts out on the show Q & A. When the actress playing Julia Gillard introduces each former Prime Minister from the labor party, she deliberately acts as if she doesn't know Kevin Rudd. This is 'taking the piss' out of her overthrow of Kevin Rudd, and also possibly the fact that she doesn't like Kevin Rudd and believes he is not worth to run this country. This is humorous in itself as I do believe that those who lie and stab their "friends" or "colleagues" in the back are also not worth of running this country. The line 'what a desperate party this is' comprehends the fact that the party may be falling apart at the seems. First with the overthrow of Kevin Rudd and now recently the potential coup against the Gillard government. This particular skit revolves around the Labor prime ministers telling everyone how good they are and what they have done, then every other politician takes the piss out of them. This is exactly what we see on the news. It is always politicians introducing new policies to try and show how good they are so they can be elected in as prime minister, then other politicians trying to take the 'piss out of them' to make them look bad. In all honesty I do not believe that this is helping either side to win elections.
It may also be ironic and also possibly a Liberal 'pisstake' of the Labor party as we did not see a similar skit appear when Tony Abbott ousted Malcolm Turnbull. It is interesting to note that there is more emphasis by the media on the Gillard/Rudd overthrow than the Abbott/Turnbull overthrow. Why might this be? Although the Abbott/Turnbull overthrow was a little less dramatic, it may also be the fact that the media takes a Liberal stance or that the liberal government was able to better push their political stunt 'under the rug', whereas the labor party was unable to!
(Image top right from http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/one-year-on-julia-gillard-reveals-why-she-knifed-kevin-rudd/story-e6freoof-1226077329188)
(Image bottom left from http://australianclimatemadness.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/turnbull_abbott1.jpg)
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