Dear Prime Minister Julia Gillard please stop being a populist and start being a politician for the people!

Dear Julia,

I really cried tears of joy the day you were elected as our first female Prime Minister. I was so proud to be an Australian woman on that day. At the time I was teaching in a girls college and I can tell you the elation at our school was palable. Do you know what an inspiration you were to my female students on that day? Grade 10 students in Australian schools as part of the Australian Curriculum focus on World War Two and Australia's involvement in this conflict. As part of their study, students come to appreciate why Australians of all generations believe John Curtin (our Prime Minister at the time) to be one our greatest and one of our most inspirational Prime Minister's to date. On the day you were elected as our first female Prime Minister we hoped and prayed that we would one day place you in the same category as our beloved John Curtin. Since that day however, I have not cried tears of joy, but tears of frustration. Julia what has happened to you? What has happened to the passion I saw in evidence when you gave your first speech to the Australian public. Your voice held such genuine conviction as you looked into the all knowing and all seeing camera. You seemed to understand what we needed to hear; you reassured us with your confidence, your intelligence and your passion. You made promises to us Julia. And when you made these promises, we wanted to believe that we could trust you to keep your word. When I look at you now, when I listen to your voice, I cannot believe what I am hearing and what I am seeing. You hold out your perfectly manicured nails to us like some Madonna like figure; imploring us to blindly trust you. Your voice resembles the quiet perfected tones reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher. But where is your soul Julia, your authenticity and your humanity. What have the grey hidden men done to you. Do not listen to them, these puppet masters. They will tell you they know how we think; they will tell you they know what we want. But they are wrong Julia, very wrong. The women of Australia call out to you Julia - 'come back to us....we implore you, we need you!' John Curtin was a Prime Minister for the people, a Prime Minister for his time. Australians knew what he stood for. They knew that he loved his country above all else and that he was willing to make the hard choices, even when it made him unpopular with our Allies. In the end he gave so much to his country that it ultimately killed him! But Julia we don't know what you stand for. We no longer believe you when you tell us to trust you. You have let us down badly, we who had placed so much hope in you, our first female Prime Minister. Tell me Julia what do I tell my female students now; the female voters of the future, when they ask me what has happened to you? How will history remember you? And how long will we have to wait until Australians are willing to trust another woman with the leadership of our country?