The most remarkable feature of Troy
Bramston’s epigrammatic chronicle of the Rudd-Gillard years, Rudd, Gillard
and Beyond (2014), is
the full disclosure of the 500-word email Deputy PM Julia Gillard sent to PM
Kevin Rudd on Monday, June 21, 2010, three days before she replaced him as
prime minister of Australia. Gillard’s memo provides us with an important
insight into the modern-day Australian Labor Party. Bramston might be a Labor
insider but he makes a valiant attempt to understand what went wrong during the
Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era. Nevertheless, a foe rather a friend is more likely to
deliver the hard truth.
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