JULIA Gillard won’t say if she’ll still be PM at the end of 2012, arguing she is more focused on the economy as asylum seeker negotiations continue.
With Labor’s Newspoll ratings consistently at 30 per cent or below, speculation continues that Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will be reinstated in his former job if the polls do not improve.
“I think you’ll find I answered those questions in 2011,” Ms Gillard told reporters at Smithfield in Sydney’s west on Sunday.
“So have a look at the transcripts.”
Ms Gillard said that in the year ahead her government would be focused on the national broadband network and the mining tax.
“We will be building on these foundations to generate Australia’s future economy,” she said.
The PM said that good faith negotiations are continuing between the government and the opposition over the reinstatement of offshore processing for asylum seekers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
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Talks between Labor and coalition frontbenchers stalled two days before Christmas.
But Ms Gillard says both sides are still committed to holding discussions in the coming weeks.
“Negotiations are continuing and it is not my intention to have a running commentary on these negotiations in the media,” Ms Gillard told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.
“We want them to continue in good faith.”
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