Only reason Gillards come up with this is she's in trouble in the poll leading to this saturdays election - no ones even mentioned the republic thing at all during the last month yet she pulls it out 4 days before the election in a desperate to get re-elected!
Actually she wasn't elected ,she knifed the ex PM when he dipped in the opinion polls and her union masters decide they liked the gravy train to much and wanted to stay in power to keep feeding at the trough