Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their
fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga
itself.
Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the
narrative of Labor's years in power. The journey to screen for each of
their interviews is telling in itself. Kevin Rudd gives his painful
account of the period and recalls in vivid detail the events of losing
the prime ministership. Julia Gillard is frank and unsparing of her
colleagues.
More than a hundred people were interviewed for The Killing
Season--ministers, backbenchers, staffers, party officials, pollsters,
and public servants--recording their vivid accounts of the public and
private events that made the Rudd and Gillard governments and then
brought them undone.
It is a damning portrait of a party at war with itself: the personal
rivalries and the bitter defeats that have come to define the
Rudd-Gillard era.
