At a time when China had emerged as Australia's biggest trading partner, Rudd could also say with confidence that he knew how to handle the Chinese. After all, he was the first foreign leader to speak fluent Mandarin, having served as a diplomat in the People's Republic during the s.
But then came the missteps. His gift for inclusiveness alternated with a harsh stance on foreign asylum-seekers and a tendency to sound, when expounding on policy, like a particularly finicky professor. And though a few genuine displays of emotion resonated with the public, like his teary response to the fatal Australian wildfires of Feb.
A June essay in the influential Sydney Morning Herald by political journalist David Marr couldn't have been published at a worse time. Marr painted Rudd as a man motivated by anger, setting down anecdotes of his tantrums. Bungles and policy lapses were even more damaging. Despite his China expertise, Rudd didn't seem to have any more success than other leaders in dealing with Beijing. Devised partly as an economic stimulus measure, and partly as an energy reduction initiative, the project was characterized by substandard installations that led to 93 house fires and 4 deaths.
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The return of Kevin Rudd to the Labor leadership on 26 June and his appointment as Prime Minister is one of the most compelling tales in modern Australian political history. Having resigned as leader in June in the face of a revolt by the Labor Caucus that saw him replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Rudd remained a prominent and popular public figure.
But Rudd, now a backbencher, seemed disinclined to simply accept his fate. He maintained a high public profile. Labor had to govern after the election with the support of independent and minor party MPs. Under such circumstances Opposition Leader Tony Abbott proved extremely effective at portraying the Labor Government as chaotic, ill-disciplined and incompetent.
The press had retained a fascination with Kevin Rudd. There were persistent rumours that he was seeking a return to his former post notwithstanding both his repeated denials to that effect and Caucus ballots that had re-affirmed Gillard as leader. But on the afternoon of Wednesday 26 June, with leadership speculation once more at fever pitch, Gillard announced that the Labor Caucus would meet at 7pm to resolve the leadership issue once and for all. It should be a condition of the ballot, said Gillard, that the loser should retire from Parliament.
For a detailed account of the election itself, see the Parliamentary Library Research Paper Federal Election Issues, dynamic, outcomes. Her prospects received a blow when erstwhile supporter, Bill Shorten, announced that he was switching his allegiance to Rudd:. Moreover, Labor also faced the prospect of a Coalition ascendancy in the Senate. Calls for an early election were prominent in editorials, and when asked by the Leader of the Opposition about election timing, the newly-installed Prime Minister said:.
I will therefore go through these issues with my cabinet colleagues. The Leader of the Opposition can rest assured there is going to be an election, it will be held consistent with the Constitution and, if he has looked at the dates, there is not going to be a huge variation one way or the other With the election ostensibly to be held on 14 September, and the AFL grand final scheduled for 28 September, 21 September remained another possible date. To go to an election earlier than September 14 would likely mean cancelling the planned referendum on the constitutional recognition of local government.
The ALP was now at ABC journalist Barrie Cassidy described the situation in the following terms:. If the first polls after the elevation of Kevin Rudd represent the high water mark, then Tony Abbott and the Coalition will win.
But if it's not—if Rudd and Labor can improve on that first blush result, however slightly—then the Government will win… The biggest single indication of how the political dynamics have changed is Abbott's refusal to debate Rudd unless Parliament is recalled or an election date announced. Ordinarily, an opposition leader is the one making the challenge, keen to share the platform and the leadership status with the incumbent. But not this time. Meanwhile, the expectation was growing that the Rudd Government would probably seek a mid-October election, allowing the new ministry—and any policy changes—at least a few months to settle.
But the hectic schedule of global meetings Prime Minister Rudd expected to attend—along with the traditional reluctance to impose a campaign over the football finals—suggested that a mid-November election might be the preferred timing.
On 8 July the Prime Minister announced a proposal for a major change in the rules for the election of the leader of the parliamentary Labor Party. The reforms—while generally well received [34] — were not without their critics. Rudd is imposing new party rules that invest him with untouchable power if he wins the election.
The role of unions in the ALP remained an issue that was still to be settled, with Barrie Cassidy observing:. Eventually a [Labor] national conference will decide the balance, free of pre-election restrictions… In any case, unions retain much of the control over pre-selections and through that process they have considerable clout in the caucus. The poll said voter satisfaction with Rudd was up seven points to 43 per cent from the previous weekend.
On 11 July, the Prime Minister delivered his first major speech on economic issues in an address to the National Press Club—originally proposed as a debate with Tony Abbott. By proposing this change, Rudd is making climate change an election issue again.
Labor's primary came in at 39 per cent, up from the 29 per cent recorded just before Rudd replaced Julia Gillard. Opposition Leader Abbott was on 41 per cent, a nine-point drop since the last survey. The Nielsen result was consistent with a ReachTEL poll of 1, Queensland voters that had Federal Labor's primary vote at 40 per cent since the leadership change—indicating Labor could pick up six federal seats in Queensland if that position held.
The Neilsen poll found that, with respect to discrete categories of policy, Labor led the Coalition with an eight-point advantage in health 50 to 42 ; a point lead in education 56 to 36 ; a point lead in environment 57 to 34 ; and an point advantage on the national broadband network 53 to Opinion polls also put the spotlight on Tony Abbott.
The previous day, a Roy Morgan poll had found that Turnbull was strongly preferred as Liberal Party Leader 51 per cent, up 4 per cent , well ahead of Abbott 16 per cent, down 2 per cent. On 19 July, as the Prime Minister prepared to announce his re-vamped asylum seeker policy, it was reported that Indonesia had agreed to his request to make it harder for people from Iran to enter the country in order to travel to Australia by boat.
Yes, the 20, people that we take is a small proportion of that and always will be. But we do take more refugees per head of Australian population than any other nation in the world… But that doesn't mean that we can let that program be dominated by people arriving in Australia by boat for two reasons. One, it's very unsafe and we've seen far too many, far too many drownings at sea Moreover, the arrangement was said to offer substantial economic benefits to poverty-plagued PNG:.
In return for housing the boat-arriving asylum seekers and resettling those found to be refugees, PNG receives a package of much-needed assistance, that includes redeveloping its universities, a new hospital, upgrading roads, a new courts complex, and the deployment of Australian police.
Reactions to the RSA were mixed. ABC News reported that some Papua New Guineans were warning Australia that the RSA would add to problems in the developing country, with local politicians questioning how the plan would be financed, and pointing out that resettled refugees may face hostility from locals. The only mandatory deportation to PNG is going to be so-called boat arrivals. Does the Prime Minister think that every refugee should arrive with a Qantas first class ticket in order to be real?
On 30 July , the Federal Opposition announced that it would build a tent city capable of housing 2, asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru if it won office.
The Parliamentary Library has published several papers on refugees and asylum seekers which are available here. On Monday 22 July, a special Caucus meeting was convened in Sydney to consider the party reforms proposed by the Prime Minister a few weeks earlier. NSW union leaders had met on 12 July to discuss the proposal. At the Caucus meeting several senior ministers spoke against the reforms, including Stephen Conroy, who said that the 75 per cent threshold was too high and should be more along the lines of 50 per cent plus one.
Changes were also made to allow rank and file members 50 per cent of the vote on the leadership. The remaining 50 per cent would come from the federal Caucus.
Those who think that making simple rule changes … is the end-point of reform, are kidding themselves …. Changing the way the leader is elected must be just the start.
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