ႀသစေတ်းလ် ႏုိင္ငံ၏ ပထမဦးဆုံးေသာ အမ်ိဴးသမီး ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ Julia Gillard

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လက္ရွိ ႀသစေတ်းလ် ႏုိင္ငံ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ Kevin Rudd ဟာ သူ၏ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္သက္တမ္းမကုန္းဆုံးမီ ယေန ့နံနက္တြင္ ကုလားထုိင္ေပၚမွ ဆင္းေပးလုိက္ရျပီး သူ ၏လက္ေထာက္ ဒုတိယ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ျဖစ္ေသာ Julia Gillard အား ႀသစေတ်းလ် ပါလီမန္ မွ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္သစ္ အျဖစ္ ျပန္လည္ေရြးခ်ယ္ အတည္ျပဳလုိက္ပါသည္။

ဒီမုိကေရစီ ထြန္းကားေသာ ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ လမ္းေႀကာင္းလြဲမွားေနတဲ့ ေကာင္းေဆာင္တစ္ေယာက္ တရား၀င္အာဏာလုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ သက္တမ္းမကုန္ဆုံးေသးသည့္တုိင္ေအာင္ အမ်ားက လက္မခံႏုိင္ေတာ့ရင္ လြယ္တကူ ျဖဳတ္ခ်လုိ ့ရေပမယ့္ ဗမာျပည္လုိ ႏုိင္ငံမ်ိဴးမွာ ေတာ့ အုပ္ခ်ဴပ္သူေတြကုိ တတုိင္းျပည္လုံးက မႀကိဳက္သည့္တုိင္ေအာင္ အုပ္စုိးသူေတြက ေသနတ္နဲ ့ႏုိင္ငံကုိ မုိးျပီး သူတို ့ကုိယ္ သူတုိ ့တုိင္းျပည္ကယ္တင္ရွင္ႀကီးေတြ အျဖစ္ေႀကြးေႀကာ္ျပီး တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ အုပ္ခ်ဴပ္လာဒါ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္သြားပါျပီ။ သည့္ျပင္ တတိုင္းျပည္လုံး ထ၀ရ စစ္ကြ်န္ လက္ေအာင္သုိ ့ေရာက္ရွိေရးအတြက္ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒကုိ သြတ္သြင္းျပီး မႀကာခင္မွာ “၂၀၁၀ ထ၀ရစစ္ကြ်န္ျဖစ္ေရး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ” ကုိ က်င္းပဖုိ ့ အစီအစဥ္ေတြ ေရးဆြဲေနပါျပီ။

ဗမာျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားအားလုံး ထ၀ရစစ္ကြ်န္ဘ၀ မွ လြတ္ေျမာက္လုိရင္ ဒီ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ ဆန္ ့က်င္ႀကပါ။


ပထမဦးဆုံးေသာ ႀသစေတ်းလ် အမ်ိဴးသမီး ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္သစ္ Julia Gillard (ဓါတ္ပုံ- ABC)

ကုလားထုိင္ေပၚမွ ဆင္းေပးလုိက္ရေသာ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ေဟာင္း Kevin Rudd (ဓါတ္ပုံ - ABC)

Gillard cements rise to power

By online parliamentary correspondent Emma Rodgers

Julia Gillard has been sworn in as Australia's 27th Prime Minister after ousting Kevin Rudd in an unopposed Labor leadership spill this morning.

The ceremony at Yarralumla set the seal on a tumultous 24 hours which culminated with Ms Gillard becoming the nation's first female Prime Minister.

Earlier Ms Gillard had told a packed Parliament House press conference that she was "truly honoured" to be given the chance to lead the country.

"I asked my colleagues to make a leadership change because I believed that a good Government was losing its way," she said. "My values and beliefs have driven me to step forward to take this position as Prime Minister. I will lead a strong and responsible Government that will take control of our future."

Ms Gillard announced that the Government will scrap its mining tax advertising campaign and called on the industry to do the same in a bid to bring the bitter fight between the two to an end.

And she promised to call an election in the "coming months" to give the Australian people the chance to deliver their verdict on her ascension.

"Can I say, Australians one and all, it's with the greatest, humility, resolve and enthusiasm that I sought the endorsement of my colleagues to be the Labor leader and to be the prime minister for this country," she said.

"I have accepted that endorsement.

"There will be some days I delight you, some days I disappoint you. On every day I will be working my absolute hardest for you," she added.

Ms Gillard acknowledged that she was responsible for the Government's mistakes but praised her predecessor for leading the country in difficult times.

Indicating that there could be a role for Mr Rudd on the front bench, she said she would be speaking to him about his future in Government.

Newly elected Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan said the Government would move forward with Ms Gillard.

Ms Gillard's press conference came minutes after an appearance by an emotional Mr Rudd, who fought back tears as he bowed out as Prime Minister.

"I will be dedicating my every effort to assure the re-election of this Labor Government," he said. "They are a good team led by a good Prime Minister."

His final line to the courtyard press conference was: "We've gotta zip".

With an election just months, possibly weeks away, Ms Gillard will now have to unite and calm nervous MPs worried about losing their seats as they prepare to face off against the Coalition led by Tony Abbott.

Mr Rudd's sudden and spectacular downfall makes him the first Labor prime minister to be dumped from office before completing a first term.

Mr Rudd's fall from the top was swift, as his popularity among voters fell from stratospheric highs to disastrous lows in just a few months.

Voters lost faith in Mr Rudd after a series of bungles and backflips, including the shelving of the emissions trading scheme.
ABC News - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/24/2935900.htm