The real Julia Gillard has been there all the time - if people would only look

Andrew Bolt this morning on MTR1377 accused 2GB colleague Alan Jones of going all soft on Julia Gillard. He claimed that Jones was naively swallowing Gillard's deft defence against Nine Network's Laurie Oakes's second bombshell: the accusation that she in cabinet discussions had not supported Labor's maternity leave proposal and the proposal to raise pensions. The pensioners don't vote for Labor, anyhow, Oakes reported her saying. It was all spin, said Bolt, implying that a journalist worth his salt would not be fooled by such wriggling performances. Bolt and Steve Price (program presenter) then wondered out loud when the real Gillard would show herself.

I find Bolt and Price's implicit admission that they have only recently seen through Gillard political con just as surprising as normally sober-minded Jones succumbing to Gillard's (alleged) charm. Gillard has never had any charm for me. Equally, it did not take long for me to sniff out her extreme materialist/feminist make-up when she began to come to prominence. It pervaded her political action and discourse, no matter how cleverly she hid or softened the ideological horror. In addition to the comment I had written but not posted at the time of the 2007 election, I posted the following brief remarks:

Wheedling Wayne and Jazzing Julia go into action

Some background on Jazzing Julia

I also gave links to the following reports or articles:

Julia Gillard's radical student past
This article is no longer available but I believe it has has been reproduced with a different link: Will Julia cause red faces?

Why hasn't Julia Gillard been honest (Bolt seems to have temporarily forgotten this)

And recently:

The real Julia Gillard - not the fake we are being fed

Kevin Donnelly recently wrote a piece for The Australian Conservative website in which he gives an account of Gillard's extreme left background but goes on to describe an apparent change to a more softened, even conservative, approach to social and political issues. He calls this a new pragmatic Julia Gillard: Julia Gillard left-wing opportunist. Donnelly's comment should be read in conjunction with Patrick Byrne's article.

Patrick Byrne, vice-president of the National Civic Council, wrote a perceptive commentary (CIVILISATION: What now after the cultural revolution?) on the state of the nation last December in News Weekly. Among other things he said:

On the political left, Marxism gained deep roots, first in the trade unions and through them into the Labor Party, and then in the universities by the 1970s.

Marxism, as a political and economic system, was finally exposed as a moral and economic failure with the fall of the Berlin Wall and then the Iron Curtain just 20 years ago.

However, the cultural influence of Marxism has survived in the West. As a tool of social analysis, it became a potent new ideology. In the arts and social sciences, history, society and even language were deconstructed down to nothing more than competing power structures. Most other human virtues and vices that go to make up our history and language were excised from these areas of school and university studies.

Further, the famous Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, mapped out a highly successful strategy for bringing about the radical transformation of Western society and the removal of traditional Christian influences. He called on the radical Left to penetrate key institutions of society and eventually take them over by planting their ideas there and winning over and educating the young.

In fact, this is exactly what the feminist movement did in Australia. In the 1970s, they adopted the leftist strategy of "the long march through the institutions" - that is, through the universities, schools, media, law, medical profession, political parties, the bureaucracy and even the churches.

In pursuing this, they found willing allies in big business. The feminists sought to abolish the dependent spouse rebate, cut family allowance payments and increase the funding of institutionalised child-care, in order to force more married women out of the home and into the paid workforce. Big business readily co-operated as it wanted cheaper, non-unionised female labour.

When Victoria's former left-wing Premier, Joan Kirner, boasted that it took 30 years of hard work to have Victoria's abortion laws overturned, she meant that it was not just a job of lobbying and organising the numbers in parliament; first, it involved winning over all the key institutions. There were no street demonstrations in favour of that bill: they weren't necessary. Nearly all the key institutions had already been won over.

Secular humanism and Marxist social analysis, then, provided the basic philosophy. Gramsci provided the organisational method.

Radical feminists led the way, and radical environmental, homosexual and other special interests have copied their method. The secular, radical individualistic philosophy of life has triumphed in the culture and the economy.

Observation and empirical evidence demonstrate without a single doubt that the Marxist/Gramsci 'long march through the institutions' has occurred in Australia and has reached its apotheosis in the ascendancy of Julia Gillard and her possible election as Prime Minister of Australia. A radical feminist, homosexualist, materialist, and a great political fake is on the brink of the nation's highest political office.

Australia sinks into a dark age

Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com