By far, the best political documentary ever made in Australia. It reads like a novel. The research is superb. Even small players are interviewed and get some of the best lines. The Killing Season line comes from a Rudd media staffer - the Winter period before parliament breaks in June.

The timing is superb. Parliament will soon break for Winter.  While the Killing Season is about Labor politics, the Rudd slaying sits on the front steps of Parliament House like a chalk outline.

Will anyone in the Liberal Party take the hint?

Turnbull has started stirring up his fellow lib progressives.

As Richard Di Natale hinted today on TV, 'if lib leader is replaced' ... behind the scenes, an abbott assassination* is expected.


*political

Swagman wrote on Jun 17^th, 2015 at 12:02pm:



Bob, left at the time of his own choosing.
Christine, ditto.
Three leaders in 23 years and no leaders removed.

Don't let the facts get in your way tussocker.

What I was pointing out is that those with their ear to the ground can hear leadership rumblings coming over abbott's continual stuff ups.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jun 17^th, 2015 at 10:22am:


Yes, that's what a doco is. Big difference.

Grendel wrote on Jun 17^th, 2015 at 2:08pm:


Not any more.

If they ever were, which I'd dispute.

Grendel wrote on Jun 17^th, 2015 at 2:08pm:


Actually, so far, it's shown how Rudd's leadership was not as frenzied as previously reported. The only player interviewed who described Rudd's leadership as dysfunctional was JuLiar. The rest argued that the Rudd government was not that bad - just off track with the "big issues", and especially climate change.

It went into the problems at Copenhagen and how Rudd bit off more than he could chew. No doubt, Rudd believed he could influence world leaders at Copenhagen the way he steered the G20 during the GFC. According to those interviewed - including Gordon Brown - he did a stellar job.

But it wasn't enough. The decision to take the ETS off the table was not Rudd's alone, but the Gang of Four's. JuLiar confirmed this. She was dead against taking an ETS to an election.

The Killing Season did not confirm a dysfunctional government at all, just a momentum started by the factions that led to the removal of a first-term PM. For me, this was a surprise. I've always assumed Rudd's leadership was completely paralyzed - and this, according to reports from the players' involved. Those interviewed did not confirm this.

Next week, however, blood will be spilled. The gloves will come off. So far, the Killing Season has shown that the removal of a first-term PM was a catastrophic mistake by the ALP. It also shows how this decision was JuLiar's to make. She left the two-hour meeting with Rudd, heard that she had the numbers and, as Rudd said, she came back in ten minutes a completely changed woman: cold, hardened, determined. The rest, of course, is history. 

But what a mistake it all was, and as the Killing Season has shown, what a waste of talent in one KRudd.

The comparison to today's government is impossible. Abbott's better weeks don't even match KRudd's worst mistakes and failures. Not consulting enough on the mining tax? Not taking "the greatest moral challenge of our time" to an election?

The issues that caused the drop in Rudd's polls are not comparable to the current backflips on nearly every major policy, the shallowness of policies proposed, the porkies, the "operational matters" and the endless, mindless three-word slogans, treating the electorate as fools.

This month marks the killing season. The time is right. Will the Libs learn from Labor's mistakes, or will they repeat them?

This should be compulsory viewing for anyone even contemplating the prospect of voting Labor, so that they can see the folly of such a decision and can spare this country from the disasters that Labor wreaks upon Australia when given the opportunity to govern!

Karnal wrote on Jun 17^th, 2015 at 4:22pm:



didnt you?