Speaking after the ballot on Wednesday night, a composed Gillard said she was proud of her achievements in what "has not been an easy environment to work in" because of the minority parliament, the internal Labor divisions and the Coalition's fierce anti-carbon tax campaign.
This week's events have exposed the unresolved divisions in the party, and the determination in conservative ranks not to abandon an issue they believe is central to their cause.
In France right now, the warning signs are everywhere – 70 years on from the French experience of the second world war, the divisions it created have never quite gone away.
In these sub divisions of the ComRes sample the numbers asked get pretty small, but the patterns and contrasts still catch the eye.
Clearly, these divisions exist across America and sometimes flare up; Missouri is used to the fissures, but not to the flare-ups.
"We jointly and firmly believe that the differences and divisions within unionism of recent years must be put in the past and a determined effort to unite unionism to plot a new peaceful and democratic accountable path for the greater number of people in Northern Ireland.
For the past nine months, she has also held the interim role of divisional director for the division of surgery, head and neck, one of five clinical divisions in the trust.
"The next president must have at least 70% of the population backing him, otherwise political divisions will ensue just like last time.
Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister, dismissed Davis's campaign as a "complete circus, tinged with vanity with a bit of self-delusion" and hinted that the true motive lay in shadow cabinet divisions which had yet to be unearthed.
Conflicts between al-Jazeera and the Egyptian authorities after the Brotherhood's overthrow in July forced the broadcaster to shut the offices of its Arabic and English divisions, and its employees to operate without accreditation – one of several charges laid against the journalists on Wednesday.
Its internal divisions could explode; and the demographics are against it: most supporters in the east are pensioners (people like the 18-year old Linke deputy in the Saxony parliament are mere window-dressing), while in the west the party is dominated by older communists and sectarian splinter groups, whose theoretical positions the easterners often find baffling.
