Dear Prime Minister Gillard.
I have to admit that when you were elected
I was disappointed.
This disappointment had nothing to do with your policies,
or beliefs but the fact that we the Australian public,
did not vote you into the position
and effectively did not entrust Our voice in you.
Australia is a country that believes in equality, freedom of speech and opinion as well as the right to vote.
But with your appointment to an office which relies on these
values to seat or re-seat its patron- All of these were lost.
Instead you where seated
by the man who the Australian public choose to represent them.
I feel robbed and betrayed-
both of my right to vote and that the person I voted for, dismissed himself from the honoured position,Basically giving up on the country and himself.
We entrusted Mr.Rudd and the Labour party with the voice of the Australian public in 2007, with the hope that a change of Gov. Party and leader, The Australian public's best interests would once again be at heart,
our voices would finally be heard
and the naive notion that the promises made during the campaign
would be kept and carried out.
Unfortunately not only did none of the above happen,
but Mr. Rudd betrayed our votes and views, then under the minuscule growth in popularity of the opposing gov. simply gave up.
In doing so leaving and betraying the office he was elected to by the Australian public which he was meant to represent and backstabbingly appointing you.
The other reason for my disappointment and sense of betrayal
is that Australia's first Female Prime Minister is one that is not elected,therefore not the public's choice.
The achievement Of finally electing a female Prime minister should be a triumph that we create and experience for ourselves when the country and it's voters are finally ready to so.
The joy and growth of this acceptance
can be seen in the election of Barack Obama to office in America.
This growth as a country and as a part of the human race
should have been experienced like Mr.Obama's election.
Instead the decision and mile stone in our history was made for us.
We weren't even forced into electing a female leader because of lack of other choices (which in a sense would have been better as said leader would have been elected but the public and therefor the selected choice.)
we given a leader-Like a child is given food it doesn't like,and made to swallow it.
This is all very disheartening to me not only as a Labour party member,
And an Australian,
But also as a female.
For the first time a woman is in charge of Australia and yet the women she is not only representing as a woman but as a Prime minister
did not vote her in.
My disappointment is also in the Australian Labour party
of which I am a member-
After growing up
in a Howard Gov. Australia
I always felt that every wrong turn that his Gov. made Australia take
was because we had elected,and kept electing the wrong party and leader into power.
Out of this belief stemmed the thought that if Australia not only elected
a different leader but a labour Government into power that
Things would change for the better and Australia wouldn't seem to be so lost and mindlessly following in the footsteps of bigger bully countries.
The promise that Our troops would return from war
and stop being puppets for a seemingly unappreciative America was a positive,stable stand point in Labours
campaign and a major reason for its election into office.
Yet when Labour was elected things remained the same.
we were still one of Americas machine guns.
After years of fighting for the top seat in Australian politics,
Labour receives it with its hero Kevin Rudd.
Then 3years into the triumph Labour not only lets its leader step down,
But feels that its not necessary to give the public a choice and go to an election a year early but instead betray the public's trust and undermine its ability and willingness to accept change when confrounted with a female choice of candatice and risk the seat while sporting you as its Foreman.
Instead they made the somwhat selfish choice to not have said early election.
I have many hopes for your Gov.
and I hope that you can be the leader that the Australian public will want to vote to stay in power in the next election.
I write this letter of expression
in the naive hope that i might get a response,
and not a computer automatic or receptionist written one either.
Though I do know and understand that your currently extremely busy
doing someone elses job.
Sincerely,
Neysha Ann Machning
