It is disingenous for Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, Stephen Conroy, Bill Shorten and others to be smashing the reputation of Kevin Rudd and to dishevel the legacy of his time in the Office of the Prime Minister.
They are communicating to the Australian people, and some of the mud has stuck, that Rudd was a 'control freak', was not a 'team player', that he was frenetic and his work ethic over the top. These are not reasons to shock someone out of the Office of the Prime Minister - actually if you invert their arguments, what is signified is that he wanted to work hard, achieve much and that he wanted to make the most of opportunity.
In the history of Australian politics no parliamentarian was ever dumped because they worked too hard or demanded more of themselves and of others. Politics is a calling.
Gillard and company say that they've been troubled in communicating their achievements and policy objectives to the Australian peoples however, ironically, they have had little problem in getting across what they want people to think of Rudd - they've smashed his reputation and his legacy - they've also made him out to be what he is not - and they've got a lot of journalists believing all this too.
Anthony Albanese has got it right when he says it was the wrong thing to do to depose Rudd. It wasn't the mining tax or the health reforms that were the reasons that he got dumped - these were misused as an opportunity by those who hungered for more power and personal opportunity. I know what really happened, someday I may write a book - in the meantime, a tragedy, damaging to the Australian consciousness has been played out and touched every Australian and the negative effects of this tragedy of me-generation politicians will linger long into the future.
The Australian Labor Party is no longer a party in its own right in terms of it being able to govern outright - it has given rise to the Greens and hopefully to others - It was not the factions or the unions who have ruined the ALP but a few factional heads and self-ordained powerbrokers with an ugly will to power and a warped set of principles. There will be many more voters who will cast invalid votes - such has been the damage.
How about Prime Minister Julia Gillard and company communicate some clarity in response to the following?
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/204717/t...
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/aboriginal/highlight/page/id/204013/t...
http://newmatilda.com/2012/01/31/national-riot-mismanagement-squad
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/pms-staffer-did-not-act...
http://www.nit.com.au/news/622-more-leaks-hit-pms-office-with-new-claims...
http://www.nit.com.au/news/545-plan-to-embarrass-abbott-involved-detaile...
http://www.nit.com.au/news/513-source-claims-pm-knew-about-leak.html
http://www.nit.com.au/opinion/525-georgatos-my-personal-look-at-the-tent...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/gillard-pressed-by-alp-...
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Unworthy Rudd..
Keep it up. You are doing Tony Abbott's job for him. More disinformation. More attacks on the current Prime Minister. More nonsense paraded as truth without any factual evidence.
I won't go into all of the details of what Kevin did or did not do. The fact is he was replaced as PM. Now let us look at what has happened since Julia Gillard came to office. What do you think was the source of all the damaging leaks that have been released to the media over the past two years? That is the integrity of Kevin Rudd at stake, who ought to have had the best interest of government at stake, rather than his own personal and selfish interest. That is enough for me. The fact that Rudd has derailed the government he is meant to work on behalf of, and in return, to work on behalf of the Australian people. He has failed in his duty to his party and the people of Australia. He is not worthy to be Prime Minister.
Juliar
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Unworthy Rudd..
Keep it up. You are doing Tony Abbott's job for him. More disinformation. More attacks on the current Prime Minister. More nonsense paraded as truth without any factual evidence.
I won't go into all of the details of what Kevin did or did not do. The fact is he was replaced as PM. Now let us look at what has happened since Julia Gillard came to office. What do you think was the source of all the damaging leaks that have been released to the media over the past two years? That is the integrity of Kevin Rudd at stake, who ought to have had the best interest of government at stake, rather than his own personal and selfish interest. That is enough for me. The fact that Rudd has derailed the government he is meant to work on behalf of, and in return, to work on behalf of the Australian people. He has failed in his duty to his party and the people of Australia. He is not worthy to be Prime Minister.
Re: Disingenuous Gillard, Swan and Shorten can communicate ...
How do you spell Labor Noel?
Re: Disingenuous Gillard, Swan and Shorten can communicate ...
Julia Gillard, love or loathe her, was elected as PM by the party caucus and won a general election with her as leader. The position of Prime Minister is only a party elected position by MPs who hold the balance of power as Gillard does.
If at the 2007 election the Coalition had won, John Howard could not have been PM as he lost his seat.
Kevin Rudd , if he won the Monday ballot would be doing exactly what was done to him.