I did feel bad for Kev. I think the emissions trading thing broke his patience more than anytihng. After that he was more volatile and clearly bitter about things. The tight little mouth moue he'd make and the obvious social discomfort were dead giveaways. One of his biographers said last night that he always blamed himself when things didn't work, like saying that it was his fault he didn't work hard enough and he just had to work harder. I find that really sad, and perhaps indicative of why things went off course recently.

I love Julia and I think she'll be a great PM. I like how pretty much all the political commentators agree that she will be beholden to neither left or right in the ALP. And I don't think for one minute she wanted things to go this way.

What's been known by politically savvy followers and possibly known but not understood by the rest of the population, is now clear. The power brokers in the caucus are not elected by the public. These people have the power to remove a Prime Minister. That will make some people uneasy.