Four Corners: July 8

Next week Four Corners takes us inside the Labor Party’s leadership struggle, having been filming scenes for the past four weeks.

A good get for the ABC but I just never understand what’s in it for the pollies to grant this kind of access…

Aptly this has been titled To The Bitter End, and is reported by Marian Wilkinson.

The last days of Australia’s 43rd Parliament were surreal.

Labor’s leader Kevin Rudd, dispatched three years ago by his own party, was returned to take up where he left off as Prime Minister of Australia.

By any measure it’s a desperate move by a party facing, as the new Prime Minister said, an electoral catastrophe.

For the past four weeks, Four Corners has been tracking Labor’s painful decision to restore Kevin Rudd as leader, the mounting fear within the party of electoral wipe-out, the ambitious last acts of Julia Gillard’s minority government and the gamble for Labor’s future with a leader it rejected more than once.

This week on Four Corners, reporter Marian Wilkinson tells the turbulent story of Labor’s bitter leadership struggle, the dramatic day that ended the term of Australia’s first female Prime Minister and Labor’s renewed ambition to win the next election.

Monday 8th July at 8.30pm on ABC1.