Sure, but it wasn’t an especially bold proposal.

Was enough to get her couped with a fake corruption scandal plastered all over the press. What are you expecting exactly, Whitlam levels of boldness?

Not a carbon tax.

Doesn’t matter. You can say all you want that it’s a lie to call it a “carbon tax” but does anyone in Australia know it by a different name?

It lasted only a few years because the Government lost at the next election. If Rudd had … instead of … that brought down both his and Gillard’s Governments.

Gillard was polling abysmally before Rudd took over. She was a terrible prime minster who nobody liked.