Yesterday on Australia day, the Prime Minister and Opposition leader were attack by Aboriginal protestor. The politicians had to be pushed into a car by security to prevent harm. The PM lost her shoe. The Aboriginals were defending a tent embassy outside old Parliament house in Canberra.

Attacked how? Like with a gun?

Oh wait, Aussies can't own guns so that rules that out...

The fact that Aussies as a whole do not own guns does not effect the threat of attack on the PM and Opposition Leader. Our politicians are easy to approach. My wife even had a photo taken with the Lord Mayor of Melbourne when she met him in the street . I doubt that would be possible in most other countries.

We do not have armed snipers on buildings to protect our VIPs. In fact not all the police and security are armed, If might be this lack of guns that allow this incident to end peacefully.

The aboriginals object to us celebrating Australia Day on the date that the British first settled in Australia. They call this Invasion Day.

However the aboriginals did not help their cause by burning the Australian flag. This is not a crime here but offensive to many.

The various attacks on Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard have resulted in a vote among Labor Members of Parliament on who should be Prime Minister. Unlike the USA our leader is not elected by the people directly but by her or his party. She or He is the leader of the party with the majority of seats.

Gillard is being challenged by ex Foreign Minister and former leader and PM, Kevin Rudd. He has resigned as foreign Minister while in the USA and return to Australia to contest the poll. While he more popular with electors than Gillard he is not with Labor members who regard him as arrogant. He is expected to lose the vote. This is a tragedy for Australia. A foreign Minster who brought the USA into an Asian alliance and speaks Chinese has gone out of the ministry. A man when PM saved Australia from the recession is gone.Labor will lose the next election under Gillard and the opposition unpopular Conservative leader Tony Abbott will be PM