Stephen Smith was looking very, very pissed off the last time I saw him on TV and who can blame him? He took one for the team when he took on Defence, the worst portfolio in the government, to allow Kevin Rudd to be eased into his dream portio, Foreign Affars (I'll leave out Trade -- Kevin didn't care about Trade, too busy bombing Libya and so on).
The word is Steve was going to dump Julia and come out for Kevin, on the understanding he woruld get his old portfolio, DFAT, back again. He stayed loyal, unlike another talented minister, Martin Fesrgson.
Instead, Bob Carr is parachuted in after after Mark Arbib decided had to read his kids more bedtime stories, wthout Bob having even one hour's experience at Federal level. What's more, Steve has the whole ADFA sex scandal mess dumped in his lap. Have Australian officers ever really been gentlemen? I think not. Oh dear! Will Steve be backing Julkia next time around? Would you? Julia is going get dumped two months' out from the next election and the betting is one of the knives in her back is going to Steve's.
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