Jessica Rudd

There were always hints that Kevin Rudd might have had a bit of a problem when it came to dealing with women. When it emerged he blew his top at a RAAF hostie because he didn’t like the meal choice on his VIP jet people wondered if he would have acted that way if served the offending sandwich by a man.

Now in the torrent of revelations about what Kevin ‘07 was actually like to work with, it’s women Ministers who have been the most scathing (apart from Wayne Swan, who went totally off his ‘nana about Rudd). It’s also impossible to ignore the fact not a single female front-bencher has come out on his side.

In fact, the only two women publicly cheering on the Rudd spill are his wife and daughter. Perhaps sensing an uphill battle with the ladies, Jessica Rudd conscripted the most female-oriented website possible to the Rudd cause, urging Mamamia readers to “own this spill people”.

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Stand by for the Kevin Caravan, that cavalcade of bad jokes and cheesy lines we saw used so effectively in the 2007 election, and never really since.

From touchdown today Kevin Rudd will be putting on a show, not just for his Caucus buddies but for the general electorate, those people his wife yesterday asked to lobby their local Labor MP on her husband’s behalf.

Mr Rudd will be calling for support from people not in Parliament, not even in the Labor Party. He wants to be able to claim a popular groundswell.

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Kevin Rudd is on a plane, which makes it hard to campaign for the prime ministership. So in the absence of media attention today he’s relied on the two most important women in his life - his wife Therese Rein, and his daughter Jessica Rudd.

Rein did a doorstop just after Julia Gillard’s press conference today where the former first lady urged people to call their local ALP member and tell them who to vote for in next Monday’s Caucus ballot. But tonight Ms Rudd made an even more unorthodox intervention in the bloody battle.

Writing on the website Mamamia, Jessica Rudd donned some literary pom poms and cheered on readers to “Tweet something. Rant on Facebook. Put a video on YouTube. Put a sign on your front fence. Have a chat with your neighbour. Tell your friends. Email your local MP. Ring them up. Stop them at the news agent and make them listen. Call your local radio station. Have a rally Vote in an online poll. Write a song about it. Get on Mamamia and say, ‘OMG she’s just saying that because she’s KRudd’s daughter.’”

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Here’s what I would’ve done if I were Kevin Rudd’s daughter, Jessica, and I was watching my dad’s anguished final press conference as PM on June 24.

I would’ve broken ranks and yelled, “He f—-ing got asked to step down all of you f—-ing idiots. I’m Rudd’s f—-ing daughter and he did not f—-ing resign. Gillard is a selfish piece of shift [sic], who cares about herself and not the f—-ing Labor Party. Have fun with the country, I hope to never vote for this god foresaken party every again [sic]. F—- all of you.”

Oh no, wait, that’s what I would’ve yelled if I were Sarah Henderson, daughter of Fritz Henderson, the former CEO of General Motors. Which, of course, is precisely what she did yell (with the obvious noun substitutions), on the GM Facebook page just days after her father was f—-ing asked to step down and replaced by one of the company’s board members late last year. 

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