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Connect with ABC News. Got a news tip? So a sense of purpose and drive, together with a wonderful family and hugely supportive friends and colleagues, was enough to see me through. How did you balance campaigning with governing over the course of your career? So you need to be ruthlessly clear about that agenda and force the machinery to support and prioritize it—in internal decision making, expenditure reviews, implementation, communications.
Core to my government were education reforms and the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and whilst we got many other things done, we were always determined to see those things through. Apart from that ruthless prioritization, what kind of day-to-day manager are you? I have a very loyal staff, and I always wanted them to feel bonded to the project. And even in the most difficult days we were a united, happy group.
There was fun to be had. What you look for in the public service or your political office would be different. I never wanted people who would just agree with me. I wanted people who would put a contest of ideas into the system.
It was a very partisan era, and the opposition had decided that they wanted to tear the government down and be negative about everything. But because we were a minority government, we reached out to minor party players and independents and took their views into account. Politicians spend a lot of time being the ones in the room who are talking. I spent time thinking about what was core for me and what I could negotiate but then also really listening to my counterparts and trying to identify what was core for them and what they could negotiate.
We had outreach into the business community, the trade unions, the environmental movement, to also get their perspectives brought to the table. You should neither overestimate nor underestimate personal relationships in foreign policy dialogue.
How did you build personal support—allies not just for your party or platform but for you as a leader? People respond to ideas and vision, absolutely, but they also respond to being taken seriously and treated decently. Then, even when you have intense engagements and end up agreeing to disagree, a human bond is formed. That sustained me in leadership for the period I was there. The days of command-and-control leadership, if they ever truly existed in politics, are long gone.
With Rudd out of the running, the ballot went ahead with Gillard retaining the leadership unopposed. Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan also retained his position after Crean withdrew as a candidate, according to Chris Hayes, returning officer for the Labor party vote who described the mood inside the caucus room as "sombre".
However, as the elections approach Gillard is struggling to fend off concerns over her leadership and political strategy, and complaints over policy flip-flops that have seen her dubbed "Ju-liar". The latest polls showed Gillard's personal ratings have risen against conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott but that the Labor Party stood a much better chance of victory under Rudd. The March 12 Newspoll found that that if Rudd were leader, Labor would win 56 percent of the vote, with minor parties stripped out, compared to 44 percent for the opposition.
With Gillard at the helm, they would lose to Abbott's coalition. Crean, another former Labor leader and party elder, sparked the ballot earlier in the day, warning that leadership speculation was "killing" the party and that the "stalemate has to end" to prevent it from imploding.
Former premier Kevin Rudd, who dramatically resigned as foreign minister this week, said he would challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a Monday vote on who should lead the Labour Party, saying Gillard had "lost the trust" of Australians.
AFP - Former prime minister Kevin Rudd confirmed Friday he will challenge his successor Julia Gillard to lead Australia's ruling party, saying she had lost voters' trust and would crash at the next election. Rudd, who quit as foreign minister while in Washington this week, arrived back in Australia a day after Prime Minister Gillard called a ballot for Monday to decide who should lead the Labor party.
But while he remains popular with voters, Rudd seems likely to lose the party vote, according to media tallies of the member Labor caucus. So far, at least 20 ministers have publicly declared for Gillard as the divisive rift has plunged Labor into crisis and descended into a series of ugly personal attacks.
However, Rudd emphasised the achievements of his government between and , before he was abruptly removed by Gillard in a party coup following a series of policy mis-steps and bitter disputes over his leadership style.
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