Despite the adverse sentiments of backbench members of the parliamentary Labor Party, most of the media and a clear majority in successive the opinion polls, Julia Gillard was re-elected unopposed in a leadership spill before Parliament rose for the winter recess. Simon Crean. The events which unfolded on March 21 began with high drama. After days of speculation about Labor’s dwindling political fortunes, the fiasco of Labor’s media reform laws and the withdrawal of Labor&rsq…
