Preface
Introduction to the new edition
I. Turning points
1. The destruction of a government
2. The making of an opposition
II. The Labor malaise
3. Fighting on two fronts
4. Shunning the policy challenge
III. The crisis of the system
5. The death of reform
6. The curse of prosperity
IV. The Rudd triumph
7. The Rudd-Gillard pact
8. Rudd and the unions : an alliance of convenience
9. Rudd's triple triumph
V. The Rudd project
10. The Rudd experiment : a crisis in governing
11. Rudd finds his mission
12. Blunder at the borders
13. Labor's new cause
14. The quest for control : from the media to Yarralumla
15. Australian settlement nostalgia
VI. The conservative crisis
16. Turnbull : the fatal assault
17. Abbott : the accidental victory
VII. The demise of Rudd
18. How Rudd gifted Abbott
19. Climate change retreat
20. The mining tax : the fatal blow
21. The demise of Rudd
VIII. Gillard in office : alive but doomed
22. The fatal inheritance
23. The tragedy of minority government
24. Signing the death warrant
25. Phoney victory
26. The collapse of border protection
27. Feminist heroine
28. Chasing the surplus
29. Far from Rooty Hill
30. Labor traditionalists
31. The Gillard demise
IX. The demise of Labor
32. Rudd succumbs to Abbott
33. The Australian crisis.