Robert Mcclelland
BY all accounts it was an extraordinary sight. Kevin Rudd was in flying form. As were his guests. Last Saturday night, while dining at Noosa’s trendy eatery, Bistro C, adoring patrons mobbed the foreign minister’s table.
They flattered and fawned over the local celebrity, who was born nearby in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. An obliging Rudd did his best to accommodate them, leaving his guests at the table to stand arm in arm for group shots with his fans. He was in his element.
But that wasn’t the most extraordinary of things. Few people noticed the other man sitting at the table with him. And why would they. The former Attorney General Robert McClelland, dumped only last month in Julia Gillard’s frontbench reshuffle, is hardly a household name in Queensland or a face that many would necessarily recognise. But there he was, the political cuckold, dining with Rudd and several members of their families, as if they were long time friends.
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When Julia Gillard walked into a press conference on Monday to announce a new ministerial line-up, it was already being reported that she had been stared down by her own ministers.
Just weeks after the triumph of securing an extra number in parliament via Peter Slipper’s appointment as Speaker, her limited authority in the party, evident at National Conference, had been graphically laid bare.
Two ministers, the popular but factionally unaligned Peter Garrett, and the ultra-cautious Attorney General Robert McClelland, had simply refused to fall on their swords.
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