Julia Gillard election promise. The bill was passed by the Lower House in October 2011 and the Upper House in November 2011. In 2010, Gillard agreed with Nick Xenophon, Andrew Wilkie and the Australian Greens to introduce poker machine reform legislation (to curb problem gambling) into the Australian parliament by May 2012. After members of the cross bench advised that they would not support this bill in the Australian House of Representatives, Gillard withdrew her support. Wilkie said that many Australians felt "very let down by the PM", and fellow anti-gambling campaigner Xenophon accused the Prime Minister of "backstabbing the person who
Prime Minister of the Netherlands Prime Minister of the Netherlands The Prime Minister of the Netherlands () is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands in his quality of chair of the Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister is "de facto" the head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates its policy with his cabinet. The current Dutch Prime Minister is Mark Rutte, in office since 2010. Although they are the most important political figure in the Netherlands, its Prime Ministers are not as powerful as the British Prime Minister and the German Chancellor. This is mainly because historically all