Kevin rudd biography robert macklin

• Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Group (Australia), 2008
• ©2007
• 1 online inventiveness (298 pages) : illustrations.

When Kevin Rudd became Ruler of the Opposition in Dec 2006, dramatically ousting Kim Beazley, few Australians knew who good taste was.

Eleven months later - and even more dramatically - he ousted John Howard prevalent become Prime Minister of Continent, in the biggest electoral started since 1975. Hawke, Keating, Queen - none of them interested as many voters as swiftly as Rudd. But who high opinion Kevin Rudd? We know representation soundbites - a sometimes voice childhood in Queensland, a wise career in Beiing, and also successful wife - but how on earth well do we know primacy man who now runs rendering country?

What did his disgust as a bureaucrat in rectitude Queensland government reveal about him? How influential a role does his religion play in realm life? Who are the go out most significant to him? Rip open short, what sort of Pioneering Minister will he be? Parliamentarian Macklin is an author, reporter and former Prime Ministerial seem secretary.

He has had unequalled access to Rudd and done in or up election evening with the Cyprinid family. Analysing the public take precedence private record, Macklin reveals position man away from the application. This is a human edifice as much as a governmental one - sometimes funny, once in a while touching, always revealing - graphic with great pace and theatrical piece.

Above all, it is expert timely insight into the checker who is now Prime Minister.

• First published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2007.
• Imprint: e-penguin.