The Big Issues

Episode 84- Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Government


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In this episode Me and Scott decided to discuss Australian Politics and we decided to go backwards and discussing the government’s of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. We break it down and discus the Kevin 07 campaign, His first year achievements in apologising to the Indigneous communities, ending work-choices, joining the Kyoto Protocol in tackling climate change. Kevin Rudd's superb handling of the Global financial crisis when Australia was growing as an economy during the 2008-9 Great Recession when most developed economies were shrinking. Though how Rudd came down with the failures in Emissions Trading Scheme that was meant to tackle climate change and the attempted tax on the mining industry. How Gillard ousted Rudd and the labor shocking management of the 2010 election campaign where they squandered the Rudd landslide majority. Then the handling of the introduction of the Carbon Tax, the misogny speech, The NDIS, The ousting of Gillard by Rudd and the 2013 General Election with the election of Tony Abbot.

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The Big IssuesBy Daud Khan, James Roxburgh, James Bell and Scott Wilson