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The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring down the Prime Minister by Kerry-Anne Walsh

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September 2013, no. 354

The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring down the Prime Minister by Kerry-Anne Walsh

Allen & Unwin, $29.95 pb, 308 pp, 9781742379227

The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring down the Prime Minister by Kerry-Anne Walsh

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September 2013, no. 354

On 7 September 2010, seventeen days after the last federal election, the Australian Labor Party, led by Julia Gillard, just managed to crawl across the electoral line, thanks entirely to the support of independent MPs. In constitutional terms, the ALP had passed the only test needed to form government: a majority on the floor of the House of Representatives. But it soon became abundantly clear that for recently deposed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, for Tony Abbott’s Opposition, deprived of victory by such a narrow margin, and for Coalition supporters in the media and elsewhere, this fact would not be respected.

Jacqueline Kent reviews 'The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the media and Team Rudd contrived to bring down the Prime Minister' by Kerry-Anne Walsh

The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring down the Prime Minister

by Kerry-Anne Walsh

Allen & Unwin, $29.95 pb, 308 pp, 9781742379227

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