Gillard should get a gold medal for evasiveness

Whenever an attempt is made to get Julia Gillard to answer for any of her actions, she prevaricates, generally claiming that the issue has been dealt with, or that the question has been answered before.

 This applies to everything from “There will be no carbon tax …” to matters related to her involvement in setting up fraudulent accounts that were used by her then boyfriend to rip off the AWU for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here is a classic example of a Four Corners interviewer repeatedly attempting to pin her down over the leadership acceptance speech. It adds a new dimension to the term, “Flogging a dead horse.”
 
 She spins like a Westinghouse.