During the election campaign Rudd quickly built a large following by adopting new approaches, including posting 'selfies' to engage audiences.
This continued through to the lead up to election, where he posted images from his daily life, even morning shaving mishaps. Social media experts, including Catriona Pollard, have suggested that much can be learnt from the way Rudd, and other politicians, have used social media to 'build your personal brand, expand your opportunities and networks, and carve out your niche as a thought leader and expert.
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Australian Prime Ministers Show nav. Home Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd. Born 21 September Nambour, Queensland. Party Australian Labor Party. Milestones Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol On his first day in office, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signs the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty commiting signatories to reducing greenhouse gases. Apology to the Stolen Generations On 13 February, the Rudd Government moves a motion in Parliament to honour Indigenous peoples, reflect on past mistreatment including the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, and work towards a future where all Australians are truly equal.
Address to the UN General Assembly During an address at the United Nations on 25 September, Rudd calls for a range of reforms to financial institutions, to be developed and implemented through bodies like the Group of 20 nations. Kevin Rudd holds a sausage sizzle in Brisbane, 8 June Learning Topic. Chapter 1 Nov Display as: List Grid.
Audio 11 Jun Event 9 Jun Video 9 Jun Article 27 Mar Event 16 Jul Article 13 Feb Audio 30 Oct Support for Labor in key marginal seats had nosedived in recent polls. Party powerbrokers duly moved in. It was Gillard, long regarded as Rudd's heir apparent, who wielded the dagger.
She now wears the crown and her relative popularity with the Australian public should reassure nervous Labor MPs. Arguably her party's best parliamentary performer, and armed with a strange psychological superiority over Abbott, Gillard may help restore Labor's previously dominant position in the lead-up to a likely poll in October or November. It has been a most surreal 24 hours in Canberra. Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept — he shed tears in his farewell address.
Machiavelli once wrote that it is better to be feared than to be loved. Rudd will have to reconcile himself with now being neither feared nor loved.
This article is more than 11 years old. Tim Soutphommasane. Australia's governing party lost patience with a lacklustre leader, preferring to fight the next election with its first female PM.
Reuse this content. Poll analyst William Bowe—who blogs as The Poll Bludger — provided an overview of the direction of the polls. He said that the chances of majority government were Contemplating the coming election, the long-time academic commentator Dean Jaensch opined:.
So far, this election campaign has shown little evidence of uplifting speeches, inspirational material, wisdom, or of what political scientist A. Lindsay calls the essential of democracy — discussion. On the other hand, there will be a record number of parties and candidates. Perhaps some of the newer ones might bring some sparkle to the campaign, offer the voters something to think about, and generate some genuine discussion.
The disclosure led to a period of strained relations which included Indonesia suspending its co-operation on efforts to stop people smuggling. The partisan politics of border protection showed little sign of abating. Unless [Rudd] completely copies the Liberal Party platform, which he can't because he has ruled out towing back the boats, then any time a boat turns up, he will get the blame, even if his solution has made the numbers fewer than they would otherwise have been.
For any prime minister, a visit to the troops is an important show of support for the soldiers and for the mission. But for Mr Rudd, this visit was also a pre-campaign whistlestop designed to have maximum impact back at home. It will play well, no doubt. Pictures of Mr Rudd mobbed by men and women in uniform certainly will not do him any harm.
But it was also a genuine opportunity for the Prime Minister to thank the troops for a job well done. The mission has been accomplished, he told them. Thanks to their efforts, Afghanistan was no longer a safe haven for Al Qaeda.
As July drew to a close, election fever seemed to ratchet up. Campaign headquarters for all the parties were in advanced stages of readiness. It recommended, among other things, that two senior ALP figures and a family member be charged with criminal conduct.
The morning after Prime Minister Rudd had announced the new asylum seeker policy, radio and television ads—along with full page advertisements in major newspapers—had begun trumpeting the message that asylum seekers arriving on boats would not be resettled in Australia. Customs and Border Protection had issued a lengthy statement saying media materials had been released in key transit regions for asylum seekers using the Australian embassies and high commissions in south-east Asia and the Middle East:.
ACBPS has also used social media, including Twitter and Facebook, to assist in the viral dissemination of the migration policy change In addition, ACBPS is using the services of existing providers in south-east Asia and the Middle East to implement information campaigns to increase awareness of the migration policy change. The focus here is on getting information into the communities through on-ground community, media and online channels. In the accompanying media release the Treasurer said:.
The following table indicates how economic forecasts had varied over a three-month period. The expectation that the Economic Statement would clear the decks for an election was realised when, on the afternoon of 4 August, the Prime Minister announced that he was advising the Governor-General to issue the writs for an election on 7 September The Federal election campaign had begun. Facsimile image of the Proclamation of the dissolution of the House of Representatives by the Governor-General.
A detailed account of the election campaign appears in the forthcoming Parliamentary Library research paper Federal election issues, dynamics, outcomes. But the relentless Coalition campaign that for years had torn at Labor—highlighting its mistakes and proclaiming its brokenness—was to prove too much for the new Rudd Government to withstand. The opening day of the campaign was notable for the strident headlines from some News Corporation mastheads calling for the defeat of Labor.
The Coalition had elected to use the Parliamentary Budget Office to verify its costings and to have these audited by an independent panel. The economy dominated the exchange—although the issues of climate change, asylum seeker policy, Sydney's second airport, aged care, and same-sex marriage were also addressed.
The Coalition officially launched its campaign on 25 August, and Labor a week later. The Coalition had a decisive win in the House of Representatives, with a two-party preferred vote of The following table provides an overview. The Senate proved to be an interesting contest, with small parties winning six of the seats—pending recounts in the WA Senate where voting was very close. The Coalition won 17 Senate seats, Labor won 13 seats and the Greens three seats, with one independent returned.
Appeals for recounts in WA were further marred by the loss of some ballot boxes containing 1, votes—all of which had been verified during the initial WA Senate count. The AEC commissioned an independent investigation into the matter, and petitioned the Court of Disputed Returns for a resolution. If the Court declared the election void and called for another Senate election just for WA this would be the first time this has occurred.
The poll would most likely be held in the early part of but would need to be completed by 24 May so that the writ could be returned by 30 June and the elected senators could take their places in the Senate by 1 July He had earlier stated his intention to stay in Parliament if he won the seat of Griffith, even if he lost the election.
The smart thing for the party and the smart thing for Kevin in my view is to not just walk away from the leadership but to walk away from the Parliament …[and thereby] remove for all time the remnants of those political and leadership disputes and difficulties that we had from the moment effectively of the defeat. Although I was frustrated beyond belief by his disorganisation and lack of strategy, I was never personally a victim of his vicious tongue or temper.
I did, however, see how terribly he treated some brilliant staff and public servants. Good people were burnt through like wildfire. Their thoughts are their own, of course, but as a group their reasoning was fairly clear; disaster lay ahead with Julia Gillard, so best pop Kevin back in, to save the furniture. One wonders what they might have been thinking as they watched their recycled Prime Minister at the National Press Club yesterday. Labor would have been reduced to a parliamentary rump worse than in the Whitlam defeat of had it not replaced Julia Gillard with Kevin Rudd as prime minister, according to leaked internal polling.
Mr Rudd saved Labor at least 15 seats, including those of enemies Wayne Swan, Warren Snowdon and Gary Gray, who would all have lost their jobs if Labor had persisted with Ms Gillard, according to the polling. In the months before the June 26 leadership coup, Labor's pollster told the party's national office to expect negative swings as large as 18 per cent, wiping out key electorates across Australia. It suggests Labor seats would have been reduced from 71 to 40, rather than the 55 it is now expected to hold… Labor's expected final result of 55 seats won under Mr Rudd will leave it with 37 per cent of the Parliament.
Mr Howard then secured 94 seats while Labor was reduced to 49 out of seats, or 33 per cent. Concerns had also been raised about the advice Rudd was receiving from Labor strategist Bruce Hawker. A slower growing post-GFC economy and the return of deficit Budgets made many voters uncertain about the future. Issues around asylum seekers arrivals remained a persistent political problem for the government until its last days.
By the time the election campaign arrived these issues were so well entrenched that little could realistically be done to turn them around.
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