Aussie PM defends job amid reports of gov't rift
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has defended its work Friday after newspapers reported divisions in the ranks of government leadership and policy scuttled to send hundreds of asylum seekers Malaysia.
The government is reeling from a decision of the High Court on Wednesday that his foiled plan to send 800 asylum seekers in Kuala Lumpur in a policy of discouraging others to journey to Australia by boat.
The decision is a major blow to the credibility of the ruling Labor Party, which was already plumbing record lows in opinion polls.Anonymous government sources told the press Gillard could soon be toppled as leader of his party in an internal coup government.
But Gillard told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Friday that none of his colleagues had raised his frustration with his leadership.
"I'm not going anywhere," Gillard told ABC. "I am the best person for the job and I will continue to do so."
Poor opinion polls led legislators to dump then Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favor of Gillard in June last year.
But Labour vote has now worsened to catastrophic levels Gillard in two years out of the next election.
Gillard was elected in August last year with a promise to send asylum seekers to a regional treatment center that Australia would build on East Timor. East Timor has never accepted the plan, so Gillard has turned its attention to Malaysia with a policy which is now in tatters. The High Court also casts doubt on another proposal to send asylum seekers on an island off malaria in Papua New Guinea.
The government is also burdened by Gillard promises never to introduce a tax on carbon emissions, and most commentators give no chance of Directors to retain power in 2013 elections. Instead, most say the work should focus on limiting the impending loss.
"The idea of a replacement is no longer pie in the sky," an unnamed government minister told the Sydney Morning Herald.
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