Well Done Conservatives

[Aloysius]

I don't hate Rudd at all - I feel sorry for him - he has desires and longings that he just isn't suited to - 

 

As for your quote: have a look - you are equating internal human rights policy with international diplomacy only because Mary Robinson was involved.

 

You are also quoting what Rudd was going to do - did he actually do it or was it yet another empty promise to match the empty coffers he provided so diplomatically!!!!

 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/...e34a032666


The tragedy of Kevin Rudd can be traced to a personality flaw
 

"ONCE in office, Kevin Rudd defied the orthodoxy and engaged in the most centralised, novel and risky experiment in prime ministerial power since Gough Whitlam. Rudd had two critical weaknesses — managing people and running a government. In opposition he was a master but those skills did not translate easily into office, a story that perplexed the Labor Party and sent it on a voyage ending in panic.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">The Rudd prime ministership is a truly tragic tale of a leader with the potential to become a great prime minister brought undone by his flaws. The explanation lies in Rudd’s complex personality. Kevin was a brilliant solo player but not an effective team leader. This was the heart of the problem. It is the best explanation for the extraordinary saga that saw Kevin transition in just 2½ years from Labor hero to repudiated prime minister."

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">"Rudd failed to deploy cabinet power to solidify his own position. This management flaw was multiplied by his erratic personality. Over time Rudd saw his relations either decline or degenerate with nearly every major institutional figure in the system: Gillard as deputy, Wayne Swan as treasurer, Terry Moran as his departmental head, Karl Bitar as party national secretary, Mark Arbib as his sole Praetorian guard and even Quentin Bryce as governor-general."

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">"Gillard said: “Kevin’s operating style was dysfunctional. It was a great pity. Kevin is a highly intelligent man. If you wanted to talk to someone over dinner about the geopolitics of the region for the next 20 years, then you couldn’t have a better companion than Kevin Rudd. But Kevin’s fatal flaw was that he couldn’t delegate, he couldn’t manage his time, he couldn’t plan strategically as opposed to plan tactically."

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Greg Combet was promoted under both Rudd and Gillard. He offers a practical yet alarming view of Rudd’s style: “You’d have to say the government had become dysfunctional. Rudd’s approach to governing was the real reason he was replaced. That’s not often appreciated.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">“Rudd failed in his management of his colleagues on any assessment. He tried to take it all on himself. He was terrified of leaks and wanted to keep everything tight; colleagues were not engaged, cabinet processes were not followed. The SPBC system (the strategic priorities and budget committee, or “gang of four”, consisting of Rudd, Gillard, Swan and finance minister Lindsay Tanner) led to very poor process."

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">When their relations died, Swan revealed some of his concealed views about Rudd, once one of his closest family friends. He became Rudd’s sharpest critic: “The central problem with Rudd is that he didn’t listen to people, he treated people badly.

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">“His tendency was to be unfocused, jumping from issue to issue, handing down dictates to people, not consulting, overreacting, trying to run a 24–hour news cycle. This really started to emerge after we came out of the global financial crisis from June-July-August in 2009. He got smashed by the Oceanic Viking at that stage.”

<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Swan had known Rudd longer than any of the ministers. He said he was unsurprised. Interviewed for this book, he said: “The problem, to be extremely frank, is Kevin is not suited to lead a team, if you want to sum it up. He had neither the temperament nor the interpersonal relations. And it is a pattern of behaviour that has been repeated in his career."

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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">These are direct quotes from those around and close to Mr Rudd - what makes anyone think they were all wrong?


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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:19px;">Time to stop digging the hole one advises.