Patrick Weller

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Patrick Weller AO is a graduate of Oxford and the Australian National University. He has been professor of politics at Griffith University since 1984 and is now in the School of Government and International Relations. His areas of research are Australian politics and comparative institutions. He is the author of First Among Equals (1985), Malcolm Fraser: Prime Minister (1989), Australia's Mandarins (2001), Cabinet Government in Australia (2009), and co-author of Westminster Compared (2009), Inside the World Bank (2009) and Learning to be a Minister (2010). He is currently writing a comparative study of prime ministers in Westminster systems.

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Kevin Rudd

Twice Prime Minister

By Patrick Weller

It was a very different Kevin Rudd who returned to office in 2013. Kevin 07 was a fresh face and a new image: the convivial, Mandarin-speaking nerd who seemed so different from past leaders and who held so much potential. By 2013 Rudd retained some of his popularity but none of his novelty. The O...

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