If she really cared, wouldn't she live there? What is that statement exactly? The Gillard is so desperate she'd even stay at Rooty Hill? That she's so doomed she's decided to get used to life on the scrap-heap? Prime Minister Julia Gillard will forgo her harbourside residence of Kirribilli House for a hotel room in Rooty Hill next week as part of a five-day blitz of western Sydney designed to lift Labor's plummeting support. With internal and external polling showing Labor in dire trouble in western Sydney, Ms Gillard will spend the entire week in the area, including sleeping there â¦ By staying in the area, Ms Gillard is seeking to make a statement, those close to her say. It's so symbolic of Labor's addiction to, well, symbols. Not a single person other than some Rooty Hill hotel owner will be better off from Gillard's gesture. Also strange: Labor's spinners now announce how wildly they spin? Reader enkl is puzzled to read Julia Gillard will stay in "a hotel room in Rooty Hill next week as part of a five-day blitz of western Sydney designed to lift Labor's plummeting support." If was only last month that Gillard said this: I do so not to start the nation's longest election campaign, quite the opposite. It should be clear to all which are the days of governing and which are the days of campaigning. I guess Gillard next week isn't governing.