@jetrodder; why Kevin Rudd was replaced by Julia Gillard has been debated ad nauseam on this forum. Your comment is way too simplistic.
It's my summation that Rudd came unstuck due to the impact of the worst global financial crisis in eighty years, his peculiar set of narcissistic interpersonal skills, his deep loathing for Rupert Murdoch's media and its self-serving ideological agenda for Australia, Julia Gillard's naked ambition and lack of loyalty, Labor's own internal machinations and Tony Abbott's relentless destructive negativity.
The sad part is what we now have to live with - our worst government since Billy McMahon's comical, inept administration.
