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September 2nd, 2011 
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The Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she’s not going anywhere and is the best person within the Labor Party to lead the Federal Government. The Prime Minister has been speaking in response to reports of leadership concerns within the party following Wednesday’s High Court ruling which declared the Government’s asylum swap deal with Malaysia invalid.
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TANYA NOLAN: First to the damaging leadership rumblings within the Federal Labor Party.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is defying her critics saying she’s not going anywhere and is the best person within the Labor Party to lead the Federal Government.
The rumours emerged after Wednesday’s damning High Court ruling which declared the Government’s Malaysia asylum seeker swap invalid.
This morning the rumours erupted onto the front pages of the nation’s newspapers with unnamed government sources urging the Prime Minister to consider her position.
A host of frontbenchers have come out in support of Ms Gillard insisting she is the right leader for the times.
But that’s unlikely to be the end of it. The party’s left faction is now openly defying the policy of sending asylum seekers offshore for processing and we’ll hear more on that shortly
From Canberra chief political correspondent Sabra Lane:
SABRA LANE: Fourteen months ago when Julia Gillard toppled Kevin Rudd she proclaimed the Government had lost its way.
The Prime Minister nominated three policies she wanted fixed to get the Government back on track. They were climate change, the mining tax and Labor’s policy on asylum seekers.
On Wednesday the High Court ruled the Malaysia Solution was invalid, triggering vigorous discussion within the party about what next, who was responsible for the policy failure and whether Ms Gillard’s time in the job had an expiry date on it.
But on ABC radio in Brisbane this morning the Prime Minister defiantly declared she’s staying put.
JULIA GILLARD: I’m not going anywhere. I am the best person to do this job and I’ll continue to do it.
And what this job is about is leading the nation to a better future. I’ve got a very clear vision of that future. I’ve been driven all of my political life by a series of goals about spreading opportunity and making sure that no-one gets left behind.
SABRA LANE: And Ms Gillard had a message for the former party heavyweight Graham Richardson who declared this week the Government and Julia Gillard would be gone within 10 months.
JULIA GILLARD: Well he’ll be proved wrong and we will keep governing to the 2013 election. And we will keep delivering on the policies and plans that I have shaped for the nation.
SABRA LANE: Key players in the party say the people that matter still support Ms Gillard and they claim the rumblings are few and inconsequential.
The Herald Sun’s reports that senior government figures have declared that Julia Gillard has lost her authority and have urged her to weigh up whether it’s in the party’s best interests for her to stand aside.
The convener of the party’s right in New South Wales Joel Fitzgibbon says that’s rubbish.
JOEL FITZGIBBON: Well, those headlines are misleading. There is a suggestion that Julia Gillard doesn’t have authority. I would suggest to you that if she lacked authority people who were quoted in that article would be putting their names to those quotes.
SABRA LANE: Well some people are clearly quite unhappy if these rumblings are making their way into the papers. What do you say to those people?
JOEL FITZGIBBON: Well there might always be one or two unhappy people. But again I make the point, any suggestion that the Prime Minister lacks authority is proven wrong by the fact that those quoted in the Herald Sun aren’t prepared to put their name to those quotes.
SABRA LANE: The Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese:
ANTHONY ALBANESE: What I know about Julia Gillard is that she is a tough person who is right for the times.
There is no doubt that the Government is going through a tough time at the moment. But there is also no doubt that Julia Gillard is the right person to tough it out, to show that leadership.
She’s someone who will see issues through. She is determined to do so and the caucus is fully behind her in doing that.
SABRA LANE: Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten who was instrumental in Kevin Rudd’s demise as leader says Julia Gillard is the only one for the job.
BILL SHORTEN: Julia Gillard is a very strong leader for the times.
Australians know that the world economy is tough. They see the vision, the television images out of Europe or the United States. They know that what we need are strong leaders not for turning on the headlines of the day.
REPORTER: So Kevin Rudd’s poor polling saw you help orchestrate his demise. Why should it be any different for the Prime Minister?
BILL SHORTEN: Let’s be very clear. Julia Gillard is the right person at the right time for this nation.
SABRA LANE: The Opposition’s finance spokesman Andrew Robb on ABC News 24:
ANDREW ROBB: You know at the moment they are not a functioning government. They are all over the place. The Cabinet, people are just making their own decisions. They’re doing their own thing.
There’s no consultation, no-one’s in charge. It’s a very dangerous time for the country. And if they can’t get their act together I mean we do need an election.
SABRA LANE: On the policy itself the Government is waiting for considered written legal advice before deciding what it will do next and what it will do with the 335 people on Christmas Island.
The Prime Minister lashed out at the High Court yesterday over its ruling.
The independent MP Tony Windsor on Radio National:
TONY WINDSOR: I don’t think it’s a wise thing to be critical of the courts. I think it demonstrates the separation of powers. I think it’s a good thing.
The Government, you know irrespective of the issue, I think having the capacity for the judicial system to overview our laws etc and for people to be able to appeal to that process I think is a demonstration of our democratic processes and is something that should be honoured.
TANYA NOLAN: The independent MP Tony Windsor.
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