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February 24th, 2012 
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STEVEN SCOTT reports that a steely eyed and fiery Julia Gillard has fronted the press to declare that she is ready for Rudd’s challenge.
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Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard at Treasury Place, Melbourne. Picture: Nicole Garmston
Source: The Courier-Mail
JULIA Gillard has fired back at Kevin Rudd’s leadership challenge saying Monday’s vote must be decided on “personal attributes”.
She repeated her jibe that the contest was “not Celebrity Big Brother”, insisting colleagues must choose the person with the “character, temperament and strength” to deliver.
Ms Gillard seized on Mr Rudd’s greatest criticism from his colleagues – the argument that he was chaotic and impossible to work with.
Ms Gillard said she should not have to pay the “political price” of undermining and destabilising.
“You shouldn’t be dragged down by someone on your side,” she said, saying Mr Rudd would not deny he was undermining her behind closed doors.
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Ms Gillard said she was confident she could beat Tony Abbott at the next election.
“Australians can have confidence in me that no matter how hard it gets that I’ve got the determination and personal fortitude to see things through,” Ms Gillard said.
“Australians can have trust in me that I’m the person who gets thing done.”
She pointed to her achievements again, specifically the carbon tax, health reform, education reform and the structural separation of Telstra.
“I’ve delivered those things…in minority government,” she said.
She hit back at claims by Mr Rudd that she and Wayne Swan had convinced the then PM to dump the emissions trading scheme, saying she was the one who ultimately put a price on carbon.
“Who can put their hand up and say they got it done? I can,” she said.
Ms Gillard did not deny that she talked Mr Rudd out of the initial scheme.
She said big reforms could be “politically costly” but that she’d had plenty of courage and discipline and “got up again and did it every day no matter how hard the going is”.
The PM restated that she was confident she had enough support to win the leadership ballot.
Earlier, Penny Wong backed Ms Gillard, saying caucus needs to vote for Prime Minister Julia Gillard in the leadership ballot on Monday and then unite behind her to deliver good government.
She says Mr Rudd must follow Ms Gillard’s lead and renounce his ambitions to be leader if he loses Monday’s caucus ballot.
Senator Wong says Ms Gillard is a more “methodical” decision maker than Mr Rudd and the best person to take the country forward.
“This is a woman who has shown fortitude, grace, determination and a willingness to look to the future,” she told reporters in Adelaide today.
Mr Rudd has said reports that the prime minister was threatening MPs with the loss of preselection if they sided with him were “unAustralian”.
But Senator Wong says she’s never heard of such threats.
“I have not heard anybody mention anything that even remotely approximates any such threat,” she said.
“If anything like that was said it would be inappropriate.”
Senator Wong said “there were a lot of challenges” during the time she served in Mr Rudd’s cabinet and she wanted to continue in a Gillard ministry.
“I think members of the cabinet are indicating their support for the prime minister, (and) we are doing so because we are informed by our judgment of the individuals concerned,” she said.
Senator Wong said her decision was made in the interests of the nation, not as a result of popularity polls that favour Kevin Rudd.
“If I stood in front of you and said we should just do what polling says, I think to a person, you would be highly critical and rightly so,” she told reporters.
“Government is doing what is right for the country and that is what the prime minister is doing.
“We will resolve it on Monday, and we must resolve it on Monday,” she said.
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