Triumph and Demise : The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- I Turning Points -- 1 The Destruction of a Government -- 2 The Making of an Opposition -- II The Labor Malaise -- 3 Fighting on Two Fronts -- 4 Shunning the Policy Challenge -- III The Crisis of the System -- 5 The Death of Reform -- 6 The Curse of Prosperity -- IV The Rudd Triumph -- 7 The Rudd-Gillard Pact -- 8 Rudd and the Unions: An Alliance of Convenience -- 9 Rudd's Triple Triumph -- V The Rudd Project -- 10 The Rudd Experiment: A Crisis in Governing -- 11 Rudd Finds His Mission -- 12 Blunder at the Borders -- 13 Labor's New Cause -- 14 The Quest for Control: From the Media to Yarralumla -- 15 Australian Settlement Nostalgia -- VI The Conservative Crisis -- 16 Turnbull: The Fatal Assault -- 17 Abbott: The Accidental Victory -- VII The Demise of Rudd -- 18 How Rudd Gifted Abbott -- 19 Climate Change Retreat -- 20 The Mining Tax: The Fatal Blow -- 21 The Demise of Rudd -- VIII Gillard in Office: Alive but Doomed -- 22 The Fatal Inheritance -- 23 The Tragedy of Minority Government -- 24 Signing the Death Warrant -- 25 Phoney Victory -- 26 The Collapse of Border Protection -- 27 Feminist Heroine -- 28 Chasing the Surplus -- 29 Far from Rooty Hill -- 30 Labor Traditionalists -- 31 The Gillard Demise -- IX The Demise of Labor -- 32 Rudd Succumbs to Abbott -- 33 The Australian Crisis -- Notes -- Index.

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