Triumph & Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation

Attending a recent lecture at the University of Western Australia, I had the opportunity to listen to and chat with the editor of The Australian Newspaper. With much anticipation, Paul Kelly outlined the structure of his latest political commentary; Triumph & Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation. 

He spoke about the failings of the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd government with the current and future consequences on Australia discussed at length. He argues leadership was, of course, an important issue; however, the real problems stemmed from enormous and systematic policy failure. 

Paul spoke about the legacy of the Hawke government and why Hawke and not Whitlam must be the standard future Labor governments aspire to. I must say, it's difficult to disagree with Paul’s analysis. I look forward to reading my signed copy of the tumultuous 6 years of power of the Labor party that wasted the goodwill of the Australian people.