but trails the Coalition on 53 per cent, down 4 points.

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There is an unholy alliance between the Right and Left to unseat Gillard because, rather than in spite, of her successful championship of mainstream values and interests. It should be fought bitterly. The Centre must hold!

The press gallery is full of such revolting specimens, particularly Milne, Grattan and Oakes. None of them have ever had an original thought in their lives, they just cultivate highly-placed sources who put them on the drip feed to push their own agenda of “whipping up leadership speculation”. Talk about dysfunctional co-dependency. They all need to take time off to go to rehab whilst the rest of us get on with real jobs.

As for Highways as the real world concern of voters –only that while Gillard has had trouble being accepted by the electorate she appears to be able to maintain loyalty where it counts – in caucus and has even had recent support from the Greens. She does face misogyny from the media pack and also from men who are conservative in their views but has managed to stand up to this attack.

Her main weakness is in not seeming to have a moral compass to stand by – but in this she is no different to Tony Abbott who has trashed Liberal Party values fairly comprehensively as well as those values he has espoused in the past. Neither of them are to be trusted on policies where there are big, influential players likely to lose.