Even those of us of a conservative bent hoped that the election of the Rudd government in 2007 would constitute a landmark, a welcome change, a new beginning. Looking back, it is hard to understand how everything went so terribly, terribly wrong.
Kelly, one of Australia’s most highly-regarded journalists and author of numerous books on politics, is a good person to explain it all.
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