I know the person who wrote to Prime Minister Abbott about Julia Gillard's appointment to the global education partnership.  The writer is an 18 hour a day professional, a highly trained multiple post-graduate degree specialist who works for the community good.   The writer wrote to the PM with the sort of concerns that normal, every day people have about Julia Gillard's appointment to an entity she decided to favour with hundreds of millions of dollars.The letter in response could have been a lot shorter, more direct and succinct.   What Ms Gillard does is a matter for Ms Gillard.
Here is a little of Bob Carr's diary on Ms Gillard, from today's Sydney Morning Herald.

Mr Carr writes vividly of when Mr Rudd pops into his parliamentary office in October 2012.

“And then a visitor arrives in my office with the air of a conspiring cardinal on coasters, sniffing out useful heresy: our beloved former prime minister Kevin Rudd, purse-lipped, choirboy hair, speaking in that sinister monotone. A chilling monotone.” [Mr Carr’s italics]

Nevertheless, Mr Carr eventually backed Mr Rudd’s return, seeing it as the only way to avoid an election obliteration.

When then treasurer Wayne Swan is canvassing support for Ms Gillard on June 11 last year, 15 days before Ms Gillard was vanquished, Mr Carr tells him: “Just let Rudd take over.”

Mr Swan’s response, Mr Carr recalls, is “it would be handing the party over to a madman”.

“‘Forget that,’ I said. ‘The party should be left in some condition to fight back at the election after this’.”

By June 19, Sam Dastyari is telling Mr Carr that Bill Shorten has switched to the Rudd camp. Mr Shorten, now opposition leader, publicly declared support for Ms Gillard right up until hours before she got knifed.

On June 26, Mr Carr talks direct to Ms Gillard. “What I say is unrehearsed and untested and has not been sought by anyone in the Rudd camp,” he writes.

“I say ‘I’m happy to accept everything you want to say about Kevin ... but let’s talk about it from your perspective ... you want to face the Sunday after the election like Kristina Keneally or Anna Bligh?....

“On the other hand you can give a speech today that will produce a surge of goodwill … you could be sitting in your former prime minister’s office in a few months taking calls offering you a job of vice chancellor or chancellor, positions on boards … you’d get a phone call from the UN given the positive impact you made with your speech of last year."

Ms Gillard replies she cannot go because the leadership battle has nothing to with policy or party principle. That afternoon, she was toppled by Mr Rudd.

There is praise from Mr Carr for the new prime minister.

Mr Rudd's PNG Solution asylum seeker policy was a “masterstroke” and Mr Rudd's command of those first cabinet meetings described as impressive.

At one point, as the early poll numbers come in, Sam Dastyari rings to say he believes Mr Rudd can win.

But Mr Rudd is a “tone-deaf campaigner”. The rushed, two-page policy to offer low tax rates to investors in the Northern Territory was a shambles.

Mr Carr observes witheringly: “Is this the best 18 months' reflection on the backbench could produce?”

Less than a fortnight before Mr Rudd’s loss in the election, the two men meet in Canberra, drink tea and acknowledge Labor has no hope of being returned.

Mr Rudd laments on how so few hold power in Australia.

“[Mr Rudd] reflects on how few people run the country: the Murdoch media, the heads of Rio and BHP, probably the heads of the big banks, and ‘that mob’, by which he means the hard-line… pro-Israel lobby in Melbourne.”

Mr Carr calls it Mr Rudd’s Richard II moment: ‘‘Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings.’'