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PrintQuick change of Australian prime minister by party caucus—result of a method of selecting party leaders that Canada abandoned
Canadians may find the sudden ouster of a PM very unusual. However, until the Liberal leadership convention that elected Mackenzie King, party leaders in Canada were chosen by the Parliamentary caucus.
Kevin Rudd, the prime minister of Australia, whose party was elected in a landslide in December 2007 after 11 years in opposition, called a caucus vote on his leadership for June 23, 2010. Realizing that he was certain to lose to the only other candidate, Julia Gillard, Rudd resigned as leader of the Australian Labor Party and PM. He was immediately replaced by his former deputy Julia Gillard on June 24, 2010, (James Grubel, Reuters, June 24, 2010). Rudd was the first Labor [as it is spelled in the Australian newspapers] prime minister to be ousted from office before completing a first term.
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Quick change of Australian prime minister by party caucus—result of a method of selecting party leaders that Canada abandoned
Canadians may find the sudden ouster of a PM very unusual. However, until the Liberal leadership convention that elected Mackenzie King, party leaders in Canada were chosen by the Parliamentary caucus.
Kevin Rudd, the prime minister of Australia, whose party was elected in a landslide in December 2007 after 11 years in opposition, called a caucus vote on his leadership for June 23, 2010. Realizing that he was certain to lose to the only other candidate, Julia Gillard, Rudd resigned as leader of the Australian Labor Party and PM. He was immediately replaced by his former deputy Julia Gillard on June 24, 2010, (James Grubel, Reuters, June 24, 2010). Rudd was the first Labor [as it is spelled in the Australian newspapers] prime minister to be ousted from office before completing a first term.
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