Never the children's fault.
Are you referring to the three that were killed?
That's a different story.
Personally, I don't blame Gillard for anything else but her own ambition.
The current unpopularity of the government is the responsibility of the party machine that runs it.
We do not have a Presidential system. The Prime Minister has always been a figurehead for majority representatives in Parliament, put there by the Party machine, the Labour Party Caucus.
It is the Labour Party machine, Caucus, which creates and implements policy, that needs to take responsibility for its own unpopularity.