Our first female Prime Minister looked more like a supermodel than a cabinet minister. But it's Tony Abbott who is beginning to look better as the election campaign moves on.The Leader of the Opposition, who started the campaign way behind and with low expectations, has proved to be far more disciplined than anticipated and is beginning to truly look like an alternative prime minister.
Abbott made big inroads against Kevin Rudd as preferred prime minister largely as a result of being an aggressive and negative Opposition Leader prepared to oppose and criticise.
One of the reasons the Labor factional leaders were prepared to move against Rudd as prime minister and replace him with Gillard was that she was a woman, and the theory was that Abbott would perform poorly against a female leader and it would accentuate his "problem" with women.
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