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Kevin Rudd

A Coup By Any Other Name

By Rhys Muldoon
They’re putting you through the fire,” I remarked to the prime minister on the first day of winter, 2010. “Is my arse alight?” he replied. It turns out it was. A sitting prime minister was about to be thrown out of office. Not by the public, but by his own party. Democracy was having a coughing fit. I had been told that Julia Gillard was not loyal, though I didn’t believe it. I was
Cory Bernardi, Conservative Warrior

All About Cory

By Sally Neighbour
“When you first come into this place, all the walls are blank, and after the first bonhomie’s done and people say hello, you’re left alone in your office with your clock, and I remember sitting here one night thinking that’s the sound of life ticking away,” says Bernardi. “That’s the very first thought I had, by myself in this place – that whilst it ticks away I’ll always tr
The ALP

No Exit

By Mark Latham
The lingering mood in the federal Labor caucus must be one of puzzlement. In terms of political brevity, direct comparisons with the Rudd government are those of James Scullin (1929–31) and Gough Whitlam (1972–75). But these experiences offer little instruction for understanding recent events. The Scullin government dissolved under the weight of the Great Depression and scarifying internal divisions – the antithesis of Rudd’s ad

The Hollowmen

By Mark Aarons
Almost a quarter of a century separates the coup against Hawke from that of ‘Richo’s’ successor, NSW Right faction leader Mark Arbib. But the circumstances and substance of these two political dramas were very different, although Richo did play a small role in Rudd’s demise, advising Arbib that Rudd was “unelectable”. Arbib was secretary of the N
Rudd's Collapse

Comment

By Robert Manne
The story of the Rudd government falls rather neatly into three discrete chapters. The first involves the fulfilment of promises and the conjuring of dreams. In coming to office, the Rudd government ratified the Kyoto Protocol, an important but easy and essent
New Labour & The ALP

Comment

By Tim Soutphommasane
For much of the last three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Britain’s New Labour was experiencing its slow death under Gordon Brown’s leadership. Few would have imagined anything other than David Cameron’s Tories winning this year’s general
Tony Abbott

The Whirling Dervish

By Louis Nowra
The two days I spent in emergency, I whiled away my time trying to block my ears to the cries of angry injured drunks and moaning victims, and listening to conversations from the other curtained-off beds. A nurse came in to tend to a fellow opposite my cubicle. A news i
Sceptical Thinking

Copenhagen and Beyond

By Peter Doherty
The scope of what science can do is constantly being enhanced by technology. While microbiology is benefiting from new, ultra-high-speed gene and protein sequencers, climatology is being informed by next-generation satellites that can measure the depth and are
The National Party

Changing Frontiers

By John Birmingham
The Flinthart of that once-upon-a-time rarely flinched from the confronting, and occasionally violent, practice of direct action when demonstrating his displeasure with the black-hearted devils of the old Bjelke-Petersen regime in Queensland. Thus, he found himself very