Rudd

The cleaners at The Lodge don’t appear to be mopping the PM’s political blood up off the floor this morning, following her butcher’s-paper-and-textas meeting yesterday and BBQ last night. But the leadership murmurings about Gillard and Rudd continue to sizzle on the hotplate.

Australians have witnessed plenty of leadership knifings over the past 20 years. Rudd by Gillard. Hawke by Keating. Rees by Keneally… It’s become so normal it wouldn’t be surprising if primary school prefects started knifing their school captains in the pursuit of absolute student representative council power.

But you’ve got to wonder why Labor hasn’t learnt its lesson about leadership challenges by now. I mean, if we can take away anything from recent intra-party political crapfights, it’s that someone knifing the head of the government and taking their place doesn’t do much to help parties stay in power in the long-term.

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The recent significant rain event in the northern stretch of the Murray Darling Basin has not only given hope to suffering farmers and rural communities, it has also placed a spotlight firmly on the fraud being perpetrated by the Prime Minister and the cabal of Labor Premiers when it comes to water policy for the Murray Darling Basin. 

Only 18 months ago this group of ‘leaders’ stood together and waved around a ‘historic’ agreement in Chamberlin like fashion claiming that it delivered a national system of water management. 

Not only has this been shown to be a complete joke by the torrent of water now flowing down the Darling, it has also shown the Rudd Government’s failure to invest in the necessary infrastructure to deliver real water savings before the rain came.

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