Search results

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Channel seven claiming Rudd jumped because they were about to report that Rudd had promised clubs Australia to scrap mandatory precommitment.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Tony Jones just said Rudd will be holding another press conference tonight, presumably to announce his candidacy or lack thereof in a leadership ballot.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister You should write for Leno.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Can I just say darling you were very brave.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister You didn't say you disagree.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Markus is quite cute, how old is he?

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Swan's attack was completely disproportionate to Rudd's criticism.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister They were close initially, but I think Rudd being a difficult man to work with increasingly frustrated Swan and if Rudd's reputation is true, treated Swan like he was comparatively dumb and by the time of the spill there was no love coming from Swan...

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Rudd hasn't openly criticized Gillard, her backers released video footage meant to embarrass him, then Simon Crean and Nicola Roxon went live to air and publicly savaged him, Gillard's office leaks that she's going to sack him in a weak, she refuses to...

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister For too long, Kevin Rudd has been putting his own self-interest ahead of the interests of the broader Labor movement & the country. The Party has given Kevin Rudd all the opportunities in the world and he wasted them with his dysfunctional decision...

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister What the fuck is Swan doing, they've got fucking kamikaze, drive the party into an electoral thrashing to ensure Rudd can't comeback. Jesus.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Yeah Latika Bourke said she'd been told it'd be on Monday.

Re: Kevin Rudd Resigns as Foreign Minister Hey! My predictions are plenty good.

Absolutely disgusting the way Burke, Crean and Roxon are behaving. Making the environment so toxic as to make Rudd a completely unelectable option if he came to the leadership, not even Nick Minchin was this pathetic when he was trying to undermine Turnbull. Wilson Tuckey maybe but he was of...

Far out how bad are Gillard's office at playing politics. He was trying to roll her and somehow he's come out of it with the sympathy/underdog/victim status.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was just trying to stay out of the fight either but understandably if the Gillard camp can't get assurances from someone that he's strong, particularly of Smith's profile, they begin to panic. Edit: Mind you Smith isn't the saint he appears to be either. In 2002/3...

If you are confident in holding your seat I think you are mindful that if you back Rudd you'll be facing a vicious preselection battle before long, if you are in a marginal seat I think you back Rudd anyway because under Gillard, Crean or Shorten you're a dead duck. Smith has purportedly gone...

Oh I agree, that's what I was saying. She should have continued insisting that her relationship with Rudd was amiable and that she was very happy with the work he was doing, if he wanted to fight for the leadership make him instigate the fight. Calling a spill, sacking him, publicly reprimanding...

It'll accelerate his momentum for sure, up until recently Rudd although widely liked has had the problem that if he were to challenge it would undermine his smiling, "happy little vegimite," I support the Prime Minister and love being foreign minister act. By forcing a showdown with him she's...

I prefer it to where you have senior politicians wooing the army and neighboring heads of state and the supreme justices in order to secure their power grab. And in truth, Rudd and Gillard themselves have barely commented on leadership, Simon Crean seems to be the only minister whose actually...