This morning's memorable events in Canberra show that in the Labor Party no one, not even a first-term Prime Minister, can survive without a genuine power base.
The roots of Kevin Rudd's lightning-speed, Twitter-era demise lie in the fact that he has run the federal government as a one-man band.
While his opinion poll ratings were scaling the stratosphere, this presidential approach coupled with the incessant spin machine of the Rudd office, was enough.
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