Well well well. It's as though Caesar himself got off the senate steps and plunged the knives back into his attackers.

The public likes Rudd, Labour Party insiders like Gillard. They take Rudd out, giving the public a PM they can't stand. And now Kevin Rudd is back, leading a country that likes him, and a party that wants him gone. Too good.

Now THAT'S political excitement. Well done, Australia!

Sad here - Julia Gillard, despite leading our first ever minority government - delivered unprecedented reforms in just 3 years - all the while having to contend with the most vicious dishonest opposition in the country's history and the constant undermining by Kevin Rudd.

The current opposition leader has ignored all convention and precedent. As a Canadian Magnus would understand precedent and convention is important in a Westminster system of democracy. Particularly in Australia, politicians have been sensitive to the ramifications of ignoring precedent and convention since a drunken Governor-General sneakily sacked another great reforming PM in the 1970's.

It's almost unfathomable to foreign observers that a PM could be as unpopular as Julia Gillard in a country that has AAA credit ratings, high growth, low unemployment, a high standard of living and was barely touched by the GFC but there has been an unrelenting campaign by the Murdoch media, the conservatives and the Rudd faction against this PM and it has not been adverse to using her gender against her. One minute she's a slut - the next a lesbian. When her father died our version of Rush Limbaugh crowed he had died of shame and despite the outcry, the Leader of the Opposition used the same phrase in Parliament within days snidely remarking the government should 'die of shame'. I could go on for pages with similar.

Anyway, it's done and dusted. I will be voting for the party of Mr Rudd because it has the best policies. The others are just wreckers.

But Julia Gillard will be well regarded by history and long admired by me.

And now Abbott meets Gillard's fate. Except in this case, the populace at large appears to loathe the man.

Mr Abbott was indeed unpopular and the new conservative leader is very, very popular - with we on the left - not so much with his own mob.

It's going to be wonderfully entertaining.