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May 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she understands caucus colleagues are feeling “political pressure”, but she will continue to do what is right for the nation rather than what is popular.
Some Labor MPs are concerned the government’s poor opinion polling, scandals over Speaker Peter Slipper and Craig Thomson and unrest over the carbon tax which comes into effect on July 1 make an election win in 2013 impossible under Ms Gillard.
Ms Gillard – who at the weekend announced Mr Thomson would be suspended from caucus while allegations against him remained, and Mr Slipper would stand aside as Speaker pending investigations into him – said she understood the concerns.
“This is a time of political pressure as we continue to deliver very big changes for the nation’s future, including carbon pricing,” she told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
“Our job, though, is to get on with doing what is right for the nation and that is what I intend to do, and actually that is what we have been doing throughout this whole period.”
Ms Gillard dismissed media reports of a deadline being set for her to get the government on track before she would be urged to step aside.
“If I was someone given to keeping newspaper clippings I would have filing cabinets stuffed and toppling over with stories written about deadlines,” she said.
“You will have to excuse me if that is not my focus – my focus is getting on with the job in the nation’s interests.”
The prime minister said the fact that the government had announced an overhaul of aged care, a defence white paper and clarified the future of the Afghanistan mission in the past few weeks proved her point.
She said Australians would start seeing carbon price compensation payments in their bank accounts in coming weeks.
“(Policy decisions) are not easy, they are not popular, but they are right,” Ms Gillard said.
Cabinet minister Greg Combet earlier said the leadership issue had been settled with the caucus ballot in February.
“We’ve just got to battle on here,” he told ABC Radio.
Incoming ACTU secretary Dave Oliver said the government was getting policy runs on the board, including support for manufacturing, paid parental leave, a boost to superannuation and taxing mining profits.
But asked if Ms Gillard should stay in the top job, Mr Oliver told ABC Radio on Thursday: “The Labor government is doing a good job overall.”
He said the government was having difficulty getting its message out with so many other issues in the public arena.
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