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Kevin 07

Kevin 07

Kevin 07 was a campaign slogan so pithy and so perfect that it may never be forgotten. Kevin Rudd was only the second Queenslander to become Prime Minister, almost 100 years after the member for Gympie, Andrew Fisher. After performing the near impossible task of ousting John Howard, for a long time he seemed to walk on water. Then he crashed in spectacular fashion, ditched by his own party before he even had a chance to contest the next election. Neil Matterson, working for Brisbane’s Sunday Mail at the time, was one of those who charted his rise and astonishing fall.

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Kevin 07, Neil Matterson, State Library of Queensland.