• Tenderizer@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    Sure, but it wasn’t an especially bold proposal.

    Was enough to get her couped with a fake corruption scandal plastered all over the press. What are you expecting exactly, Whitlam levels of boldness?

    Not a carbon tax.

    Doesn’t matter. You can say all you want that it’s a lie to call it a “carbon tax” but does anyone in Australia know it by a different name?

    It lasted only a few years because the Government lost at the next election. If Rudd had … instead of … that brought down both his and Gillard’s Governments.

    Gillard was polling abysmally before Rudd took over. She was a terrible prime minster who nobody liked.

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      5 days ago

      Gillard was polling abysmally before Rudd took over

      Yes. Because of relentless attack ads from the Murdoch media, and because Australians hate internal party division, and Rudd stoked that up every chance he got.