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Australia has a new prime minister. No, not Tony Abbott – that happens in a couple of months’ time. Till then we’ve got Kevin Rudd back in charge.
That’s Kevin Rudd as in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader largely responsible for turning Australia’s A$20 billion surplus into an A$44 billion deficit – and also responsible for the hated, destructive Mining Tax.
Rudd proved so cackhanded and unpopular at his job that it seemed certain that the ALP would lose at the 2010 general election. This gave his deputy Julia Gillard the excuse she needed to launch a coup – something for which Rudd has naturally never forgiven her. Today he has enacted his revenge.
For the background to all this I do recommend you read Ozboy’s brilliant take on the subject. It makes Australian politics sound dirtier and more machiavellian than Game of Thrones, which from what little I’ve seen (the ALP’s disgraceful financial involvement through the union superfunds in the great wind scam, for example) it probably is.
Even if you’re not as interested as I am in Australia, there are at least two reasons why you should care about these shenanigans.
1. Australia now has the chance – should it wish to take it – of joining Canada in leading the Conservative fightback in what remains of the free West. Tony Abbott’s Liberals (that’s Australian for Conservatives) look set to win an outright majority, without having to do any of the grotesque horsetrading with the Greens (which have been one of the more noisome and damaging aspects of Gillard’s vile, principle-free Coalition).
2. If an unpopular and useless Prime Minister can be defenestrated by their party in Australia, why not in Britain too?
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Australia has a new prime minister. No, not Tony Abbott – that happens in a couple of months’ time. Till then we’ve got Kevin Rudd back in charge.
That’s Kevin Rudd as in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader largely responsible for turning Australia’s A$20 billion surplus into an A$44 billion deficit – and also responsible for the hated, destructive Mining Tax.
Rudd proved so cackhanded and unpopular at his job that it seemed certain that the ALP would lose at the 2010 general election. This gave his deputy Julia Gillard the excuse she needed to launch a coup – something for which Rudd has naturally never forgiven her. Today he has enacted his revenge.
For the background to all this I do recommend you read Ozboy’s brilliant take on the subject. It makes Australian politics sound dirtier and more machiavellian than Game of Thrones, which from what little I’ve seen (the ALP’s disgraceful financial involvement through the union superfunds in the great wind scam, for example) it probably is.
Even if you’re not as interested as I am in Australia, there are at least two reasons why you should care about these shenanigans.
1. Australia now has the chance – should it wish to take it – of joining Canada in leading the Conservative fightback in what remains of the free West. Tony Abbott’s Liberals (that’s Australian for Conservatives) look set to win an outright majority, without having to do any of the grotesque horsetrading with the Greens (which have been one of the more noisome and damaging aspects of Gillard’s vile, principle-free Coalition).
2. If an unpopular and useless Prime Minister can be defenestrated by their party in Australia, why not in Britain too?
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