Julia Gillard has had an unfortunate propensity of making grandiose gestures intended to galvanise and inspire her party, but which get rapidly overtaken and diminished by subsequent events.
And so her latest September 14 election announcement, the centrepiece of her 2013 re-election strategy, which was intended to break the downward spiral of her popularity with voters and lock in her team behind her, appears to have turned to mud.
While Ms Gillard’s media cheer-squad hailed the…
