Worrals, my argument is that Gillard will do anything (like all the spineless compromises you so accurately list) to maintain power for long enough to implement the Master Plan, phase one of which is to beggar the nation so that everyone is dependent on Big Brother.
Keating? Having seen him close up on quite a few occasions in his pre-PM days, I don't have a high opinion of the man. However, I will accept that compared with the misbegotten immigrant we have at the helm at the moment, (and her gender has nothing to do with it), Keating was a highly esteemed statesman of the first order.
But let's face an unpalatable truth - compared with Gillard (and to a not much lesser extent, Rudd), Ginger bloody Meggs could be considered to be a statesman.