Wow, I watched the first video of that link and I had to concentrate quite a lot to understand some of the parts of her speech. I would expect that kind of accent from a labor worker, but not from a politician. It is not a critique, just an observation. If I ever go to Australia one day like I'd like to, communication with the locals will be a challenge at first.
To me, it's a miracle she's been able to terminate her speech without dislocating her jaw.
It's not just you. She's an amazingly bad speaker for a politician, let alone the leader of a country. She's also highly unpopular, with an approval rating of about 36% and a disapproval rating of about 56%. Her government is certain to lose the next election by a considerable margin.
Her defenders point to the huge amount of legislation that her government has passed. To me personally, that is nothing to be proud of at all - excessive rules and resulting bureaucracy are a major drag on the country. I'd rather see efforts to simplify statutes, with new laws balanced by the repeal of old ones.
To make matters worse, there have been major compromises that have turned good ideas into turkeys. For me, the ultimate example was the proposed 'mining super profits tax', which was an effort to replace quantum and ad valorem royalties with taxes on 'super profits', i.e. in excess of normal investment returns. Not only was the tax going to intercept some of the money currently disappearing overseas, but it might have slowed the out-of-control explosion in mining, which is afflicting this country with an uncompetitive exchange rate and causing the collapse of our fragile manufacturing industries.
The prime minister did a secret deal with the 3 largest mining companies in the world to implement the tax. The net effect is that the the concessions balance the revenue from the severely watered-down tax, so in fact it will achieve nothing.
In other words, she betrayed the nation.
Other people have other reasons for disapproving of her; there's actually a very long list.
Her opponent in this contest is the former prime minister. He has been criticized for being a micro-manager, a procrastinator, a demanding boss and someone who does not suffer fools gladly. And possibly leaking to the media and not listening to the union-appointed members of parliament (the latter is no doubt something of a foreign concept to people in the USA).
When compared to the current prime minister he is favored by the populace by a margin of 53% to 30%.
However, prime ministers are not elected by the populace, but by other parliamentary members of the party in government. Members supporting the previous prime minister have been threatened with losing jobs as ministers or even disendorsement, where the party picks someone else to run for their seat at the next election.
There's also a lot of hatred, but most of that is from people who expect to lose their jobs or their influence if the previous prime minister regains control.
The upshot is that the previous prime minister is certain to lose, and the party will likely fracture over the coming year, ultimately losing maybe a third of their seats in parliament.
So there you go, as a nation we're just as stupid as the USA and everyone else.
Here's a legendary outtake clip of the former prime minister
struggling with a greeting to China. He is actually fluent in mandarin but is having a bad day
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