Remember this? I still wonder about Kevin you know!
Novices at the wheel of state - The Australian
Psychologists would almost certainly have something to say about a leader who surrounds himself with young, inexperienced operators to the exclusion of more mature people who could constructively challenge his policies and arguments. If David Marr's Quarterly Essay analysis that Rudd has rage at his core is accurate, it could be that he simply can't handle critical advice. via theaustralian...
IN the final months of his leadership, Kevin Rudd cut himself off.
He wouldn't listen to senior factional leaders and took advice from only his office and closest confidants.
While even ministers struggled for face time with the prime minister, there was one man, one trusted adviser, who could break through the self-imposed cordon - actor, former Play School presenter and part-time author Rhys Muldoon.
Labor sources claim Muldoon was there earlier this year when party hardheads were trying to collar Rudd on his preparations for the health debate.
He was there on the final tumultuous day of Rudd's reign, invited to Parliament House by the prime minister himself.
via The Australian
I guess well have friends from all over the place. And I realise its really just journo's playing on the minds and imagination of people like me. But still. It is interesting, that in the last three years, the closes people to Kevin, providing him with, not only advice in office, but obviously, personal advice, its interesting that these people have very little to do with politics and/or the Labor Party.
No wonder he didn't survive.
Of all political regimes, the Labor Party organisation is based on factions, unions, the number-crunchers. And if your number-crunchers are not privvy to the innards of the organisation, you obviously can't last long!
But still. There's lots of young, good looking fellas in that circle, aren't there Kev? ;)
A spokesman said the pair were "mates".
via The Australian
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