Kevin Rudd / Julia Gillard
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7th September, 2013 Labor in government was a continuous leadership struggle, orchestrated by Labor’s faceless men. Labor was so focused on itself that it was unable to govern. Both leaders failed and left behind a trail of mismanagement, mistrust and poor governance. |
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26th June, 2013 Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard 57 votes to 45 in leadership challenge. 7 Ministers refuse to serve in Rudd cabinet and 6 announce their retirement from Parliament |
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26th June, 2013 Kevin Rudd deposes Julia Gillard as Prime Minister. Julia Gillard and six Ministers announce their intention to leave Parliament |
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22nd March, 2013 Kevin Rudd's spokesperson, "Mr Rudd has said consistently over the last 12 months that he would not challenge for the Labor leadership and that he would contest the next election as a local Member of Parliament at the next election. Furthermore, Mr Rudd wishes to make it 100 per cent clear that there are no circumstances under which he will return to the Labor Party leadership in the future." 22/3/2013 |
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22nd March, 2013 Kevin Rudd, "In political life we live by our word. We live by whether we honour our word. And the good people of Australia observe that over a lifetime I have said time and time again that I would not challenge in the future for the leadership of the Labor Party - I believe in honouring my word. "Furthermore, had I done the reverse and simply gone out there and challenged, each and every one of you here today, as journalists, here in Brisbane, would quite rightly have attacked me for a loss of credibility for having walked back on my word." Kevin Rudd, 22/3/2013 |
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21st March, 2013 Another leadership challenge - this time Kevin Rudd wimps out minutes before the meeting admitting that he did not have the numbers. Kevin Rudd says that he will never challenge for the leadership again. In the process and following two earlier Cabinet resignations, three more Ministers quite and one junior Minister and all three Government Whips resign |
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21st March, 2013 "When I say to my Parliamentary colleagues and to the people at large across Australia that I would not challenge for the Labor leadership I believe in honouring my word. Others treat such commitments lightly. I do not." Kevin Rudd, 21/3/2013 |
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30th January, 2013 Julia Gillard announces the election will be held on 14 September 2013 beginning a 255 day campaign period - by far the longest ever |
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13th January, 2013 Julia Gillard equals Kevin Rudd's 935 days as Prime Minister, having faied to deliver on any of her three key commitments following the knifing of Kevin Rudd. Fix the Budget - after 935 days Kevin Rudd's debt was $42 billion. - after 935 days Julia Gillard's debt was $147 billion. Fix border security - during Kevin Rudd's 935 days there were 6500 illegal boat arrivals. - during Julia Gillard's 935 days there were 25000 illegal arrivals Fix the mining tax - no money collected from the mining tax in Julia Gillard's 935 days. Kevin Rudd said he was a fiscal conservative but delivered three Budget deficits. Julia Gillard promised 100 times to balance the 2012-13 Budget but has never delivered a surplus. Electricity prices rose 34% under Rudd but 41% under Gillard. Gas prices rose 25% under Rudd but 29% udner Gillard. Julia Gillard delivered the world's biggest carbon tax after promising she would never do so. |
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27th February, 2012 Julia Gillard survives a bitter leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd defeating him 31 votes to 7 |
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27th February, 2012 "To Julia I would say this... You will have my absolute support in your efforts to bring us to victory. I will not under any circumstances mount a challenge to your leadership. I go one step further. If anyone turns on Julia in the 18 months again, Julia, you will find me in your corner against them." Kevin Rudd, 27/2/2012 |
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14th June, 2011 Prime Minister's staff numbers increase by 30% since Labor came to office in 2007. Ms Gillard has 53 personal staff compared to 41 since when Mr Rudd took office (Herald Sun) |
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9th March, 2011 Julia Gillard addresses US Congress but fails to mention her carbon tax plan. President Obama says a cap and trade ETS would cause electricity prices to sky rocket and a carbon tax is not under consideration in the US |
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31st January, 2011 Gillard's Chief of Staff, Amanda Lampe, quits following months of criticism from inside the ALP about the performance of the PM's office |
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17th December, 2010 Wikileaks reports that Labor power broker, Senator Farrell told U.S. Embassy that Julia Gillard was seeking the Prime Ministership a year before the coup (The Australian) |
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25th June, 2010 Julia Gillard reappoints most of the Ministry - all of whom come from capital cities |
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24th June, 2010 Well known critic of Julia Gillard, Lindsay Tanner, announces that he will quit Parliament at the next election. Senator John Faulkner follows a few days later. |
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24th June, 2010 Labor factional warlords combine to replace Kevin Rudd with Julia Gillard as Prime Minister, even though she was acting PM for almost a quarter of the time Mr Rudd was officially PM and even though she was one of the 'gang of four' which made all of the decisions which made Mr Rudd unpopular, including the CPRS, the mining tax, insulation rorts, BER school hall waste, school computer blow out, the debt funded cash splash, and all of Labor's broken promises |
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12th June, 2010 Keith De Lacy, former Queensland Labor Treasurer during the period when Kevin Rudd was the State Government's chief bureaucrat, calls for Rudd's removal from the leadership of the ALP |
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1st June, 2010 Kevin Rudd claims the Auditor-General had "reservations" about scrutinizing the Government's taxpayer funded advertising blitz. But the Auditor-General wrote on March 29 that he was "concerned" "the revised arrangements" would lead to inadequate scrutiny of advertisements |
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28th May, 2010 Kevin Rudd overrides his own guidelines to declare his $38 million super tax advertising campaign emergency national interest expenditure. The advertisements were planned and researched in April before the release of the Henry Review and the announcement of Labor's giant new tax on mining |
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15th May, 2010 Three quarters of Kevin Rudd's Twitter followers are from overseas including large numbers from Chile, Ecquador and Belarus |
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11th May, 2010 BUDGET Labor's Budget 2010-11 increases staff numbers in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet by 32% Labor's Budget 2010-11 shows Government interest bill is more than $12 million a day in 2010-11 rising to $18 million a day in 2011-12 |
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30th April, 2010 Prime Minister Rudd has spent 55 days per year overseas |
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15th April, 2010 28 staff have left Kevin Rudd's office since the election. His agressive attitude to staff blamed for some departures from the Prime Minister's Office which is described as a 'transit lounge' |
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30th March, 2010 Union leader Kevin Harkins who PM Rudd said had 'Buckleys and none' prospect of becoming an ALP Senator nominates for the Senate |
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19th September, 2009 Julia Gillard makes ten changes to her announced Ministry before it is even sworn in |
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26th June, 2009 Kevin Rudd has spent more than $733,000 on overseas travel in the last six months alone Kevin Rudd's overseas travel bill cost taxpayers $942,000 in the second half of 2008 |
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18th June, 2009 It has been revealed that Kevin Rudd's personal VIP aircraft bill for last year was more than $3 million, or $57,600 a week The Rudd Labor Government has smashed the annual record for VIP flights |
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17th June, 2009 It is revealed that Kevin Rudd's electorate office rang the principal of a school in his electorate asking for a letter that Julia Gillard subsequently read out in Parliament praising the government's school-building program |
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16th June, 2009 Holland Park State School in Kevin Rudd's electorate already has a brand new $1.3 million multi-purpose hall, but the school will receive another $1.5 million from taxpaers to build another hall. The school also received an additional $1.5 million to build a resource centre library, even though the school already has a library |
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4th April, 2009 PM Rudd's $78,000 per year 'butler' John Fisher becomes the 16th member of bad tempered Kevin Rudd's personal staff to quit in just 16 months |
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31st March, 2009 Kevin Rudd has racked up almost $3.4 million in overseas travel expenses for 15 separate trips and spent one day out of every six days as Prime Minister out of the country |
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27th January, 2009 Bad tempered PM Rudd reduces a flight attendant to tears on his VIP flight (from Port Moresby) after he abuses her for not serving him the correct sandwich |
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11th January, 2009 Kevin Rudd calls for workers to show wage restraint as Australia heads towards a recession but secretly gives special top up pay bonuses to at least two of his personal staff |
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10th December, 2008 Kevin Rudd's official residences, The Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli House in Sydney emitted 272 tonnes of carbon in nine months, 21 times more than an average household. Mr Rudd would have to plant 2205 trees to offset his annual household emissions |
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10th December, 2008 Kevin Rudd emitted 11,700 tonnes of carbon by using the Government's Boeing 737 for his travel. The same travel on a commercial carrier would have emitted 90 tonnes |
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21st October, 2008 In Senate Estimates it is revealed that the Office of Northern Australia is simply a rebadging of the former Department of Transport and Regional Services Townsville and Darwin regional offices |
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27th September, 2008 Kevin Rudd travels to New York to deliver a speech at the United Nations but the hall is nearly empty |
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18th September, 2008 After 10 months in Government, Kevin Rudd is about to head off on his 16th overseas trip |
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27th August, 2008 The following table compares Kevin Rudd's use of his pet phrases in the 9 months BEFORE the election and in the 9 months AFTER the election Phrase - Before / After “The buck stops with me” - 31 / 1 “Global Oil Shock” - 0 / 41* “Education Revolution” - 287 / 49 “Fresh Ideas” - 87 / 7 “End the blame game” - 146 / 36 “eagle-eye”** - 0 / 12 *Includes Mr Swan’s remarks as well as Mr Rudd’s **More accurately a “Swannism” — Treasurer Swan’s remarks It demonstrates that following the election, Kevin Rudd is out of fresh ideas, is not committed to ending the blame game and no longer believes the buck stops with him |
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30th May, 2008 Kevin Rudd has failed to issue his Ministers with Charter Letters, a key guide on portfolio responsibilities and expectations |
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30th May, 2008 Taxpayers footed a U.S.$1700 cancellation fee when the Prime Minister "changed his mind" about staying at the Willard Hotel in Washington during his 18 day tour world tour |
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30th May, 2008 The ABC has had discussions to ensure the Prime Minister's press staff can no longer bully them about filming in ABC studios in Parliament House |
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30th May, 2008 Kevin Rudd has a butler - hidden under the title "Travel Assistant". The Government would not comment on reports that this person assisted the Prime Minister by laying out his clothes each morning |
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30th May, 2008 Before the election, Kevin Rudd promised a new era in public service independence, open and transparent government and protection for whistleblowers, yet Mr Rudd has called in police to investigate the publication of Government advice |
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23rd May, 2008 Kevin Rudd declares he has done all he can to reduce the cost of living |
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11th April, 2008 Kevin Rudd breaches sections 2.12 and 2.13 of The Standards of Ministerial Ethics by omitting Invisage Australia from his House of Representatives Registry of Interests |
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3rd April, 2008 Kevin Rudd has spent one month out of the last four months since becoming Prime Minister, travelling the world |
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22nd February, 2008 Mr Rudd fails to attend Parliamentary sitting and confirms that neither he nor his Ministers will answer questions or attend Parliament on Friday sittings |
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1st December, 2007 Mr Rudd increases personal staff in his office by 12% Mr Rudd increases staff at his official residences, The Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli House in Sydney |
