A duck-shover’s memoir

At the Menzies Research Centre, a review by Nick Cater of Kevin Rudd’s latest ode to his thwarted magnificence:

Now we know the truth behind the conspiracy to destroy one of the greatest prime ministers in the history of Australia, and possibly the world.

Kevin Rudd did not, as previously supposed, blunder his way through office charged with hubris, making it up as he went along. He was a nation-builder possessed with the vision and intellect that marks the great from the small-minded nobodies at one’s feet. The PM Years, the second and probably not the last volume of Rudd’s memoirs, is a compendium of excuses.

Prime ministerial responsibility is abrogated on every page. Ducks are shoved and bucks are passed. Rudd has nothing to declare but his own genius…

For the full review, follow this link or the one below.

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