Three steps to hijack the ALP, while being knifed in the back.

Step 1 Attain Parliamentary Labor Party leadership.

Step 2 Develop policies that will guarantee the numbers and use the National Executive to persuade the Australian Labor Party, to hand over a valuable brand, the Labor brand to a small clique of politicians, with right wing ambitions, and take it to the Australian people.

Step 3 Obtain numbers by trading off values, doing deals with grass routes key stakeholders and lobbyists, whilst cultivating others.

Mr. Rudd took a slightly different route to get to the position he is in now. It is text book perfect.

Whilst understanding there would be leadership change in his party Mr. Rudd, started his long journey at Step 3, moved to step 2, then ultimately Step 1.

It is at the Step 3 obtaining numbers at the grass routes, not numbers for a challenge, which saw Mr. Edwards’s, introduce Mr. Burke to Mr. Rudd.

Brian Burke, the lobbyist described by WA Premier as ‘Toxic’ is a talented bloke, he was an ex Premier himself, and would have seen the benefit of, being a proud dad, and inform his prospective and current clients, ‘hey Yeh my daughter is on the ALP National Executive committee’ with Mr. Rudd.’.

And we know that Brian has the goosd in Western Australia.

Alannah MacTiernan WA Senior Labor Minister says the leaders of a handful of unions in WA control a large percentage of the votes in the executive conference.