Australia will have a new Prime Minister today. It is an extraordinary turn of events. Kevin Rudd’s base of power within the Labor Party was based on two things: delivering government and maintaining government. He has no particular factional alignment that provides him with a power-base in the Labor movement. When elected leader Rudd chose …
Reading the Australian Constitution is little help at all. If you took out direct reference to the name of our nation, you’d think it was describing some other nation altogether. In practice, the Australian people elect the parliament; the members of the parliament elect the executive, including the Prime Minister. Due to the fact that …
Listening to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announcing a leadership spill tomorrow which he will be contesting. How can a first term Prime Minister who won a sweeping victory; has faced a decimated and dispirited opposition (led by its third leader in three years); and whose government has not had any question of scandal or illegal …
Here are my notes on Australian Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott’s address and answers to questions at Make It Count 2010. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s address and answers are posted here. These are detailed notes and should not be considered a transcript. I’m trying to get these up in a timely fashion. If anything …
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