Rudd’s Way
Kevin Rudd was the most popular politician Australia has ever seen – for a while. He was the man who captured the mood for change in Australia, and promised us a rosy future, getting on with the business of dealing with climate change, addressing long overdue indigenous issues and repealing the dreaded work choices laws. He was – you could say – “moving forward”. So just what went wrong? And to what extent was Kevin Rudd really responsible for the ALP’s woes in the lead up to the Gillard take-over? Nicholas Stuart is an ABC journalist who’s followed the stellar career of Kevin Rudd closely. He’s just released a new book chronicling “Rudd’s Way”… and he told Catherine Zengerer how walking away from the ETS was what ensured Kevin 07 would never make it to Kevin 11…