The Stalking Of Julia Gillard

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Crows Nest, Sydney
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 305 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. How The Media And Team Rudd Contrived To Bring Down The Prime Minister.

Publishers Description: This is the story of one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history, of how a powerful media pack, a vicious commentariat and some of those within her own party contrived to bring down Australias first woman prime minister. Dont write crap. Cant be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it. Julia Gillard When Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of most of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. But when she announced in February 2011 that her government would introduce a carbon pricing scheme, Kevin Rudd and his small team of malcontents were already in lock-step with key Canberra and interstate journalists in a drive to push her out of the prime ministerial chair. Never has a prime minister been so assiduously stalked. Cast as a political liar and policy charlatan, Julia Gillard was also mercilessly and relentlessly lampooned for her hair, clothes, accent, her arse, even the way she walks and talks. This is the story about one of the most extraordinary episodes in recent Australian political history. It focuses on Team Rudd and the medias treatment of its slow-death campaign of destabilisation, with its disastrous effect on Gillard and the governments functioning. It is about a politician who was never given a fair go; not in the media, not by Rudd, not by some in her own caucus.

ISBN: 9781742379227