So far, not so good After four days of Julia Gillard's 227-day election campaign - announced from behind new glasses - reader Brian wonders: I wonder how much longer the PM will persist with her new lucky spectacles before they are put back in the dressing-up box. Good question. The media commentary today is not kind, even from Fairfax. Alex Mitchell in the Sun-Herald: WATCHING Julia Gillard's government disintegrate is a gruesome revisitation of the flame-out of Kristina Keneally's government two years ago. The Sun-Herald: THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, capped the third day of her election campaign with the resignation of two frontbenchers, leaving her to fend off accusations Labor was spinning out of control... ""We agreed at the right time they would relinquish their ministerial roles and I would make new appointments,"" Ms Gillard said. ""This is precisely the right time as Parliament resumes next week."" But exasperated colleagues did not share her view. ""If this is the best time, then I know nothing about politics,"" said one. ""This is not a cunning plan â¦ it's ridiculous, it's got me f---ed,"" said another. The resignations have also raised talk of rats leaving a sinking ship and had internal critics claiming it again showed the Prime Minister's political judgment remained problematic, with her government seen as lurching from crisis to crisis. Herald Sun: David Crowe of The Australian: WATCHING two ministers quit after you've just set the election date is an unlikely strategy for an election campaign. Julia Gillard has confirmed some of the doubts among her own colleagues about her political tactics by announcing a reshuffle so soon after a major speech last Wednesday that sought to project "certainty" about her plans as well as the idea that Labor had everything in place to fight to retain government... Caucus members who strongly support Gillard nonetheless admit she has a "roll the dice" approach that worries them. Samantha Maiden of News Ltd: JULIA Gillard's war bunker is now such tightly controlled airspace that even when she has a plan it looks like chaos to the ALP caucus. The Prime Minister still lets Wayne Swan, Anthony Albanese and a handful of others in on some secrets. But most ministers are strapped into a re-enactment of the Hindenburg blimp disaster for the same shock-and-awe revelations that voters get. This doesn't sound helpful at all, even with a Labor man writing the script: The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that work has begun on the series, with author Bob Ellis commissioned to write an initial script... Mr Ellis has been a speechwriter for Foreign Minister Bob Carr, with whom he remains a close confidant... He once chastised Ms Gillard for her "girly tears" over the death of her father, and using John Gillard's death to "take time off playing hooky from her national obligations" while he has described Mr Rudd as "friendless." The series is supposed to screen "within 12 months." The election is in seven and half months.