Age: It was the moment when the Rudd government lost its way. In this extract from his new book Power Failure, Philip Chubb tells the inside story of how Labor imploded over climate change policy. After the disaster of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009, Kevin Rudd suddenly shifted his focus to hospital reform - but his failure to deal with the fall-out for his signature climate policy was to prove fatal to his leadership.
In the week after Australia Day 2010, Rudd flew around the...