The Killing Season (2015)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series examines the internal conflict within the Australian Labor Party during the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013. Journalist Sarah Ferguson interviews party decision-makers and strategists about the infighting that brought down a government which had performed well during the financial crisis.

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What happens

The Killing Season is a 2015 Australian three-part documentary television series which analyses the events of the Rudd–Gillard government which lasted from 2007 until 2013; it was a turbulent period in Australia’s modern political history. Journalist Sarah Ferguson interviewed the Australian Labor Party decision-makers and strategists who engaged in internal conflict that brought down a government that performed well during the 2008 financial crisis. The program followed the ABC's contemporary tradition of producing similar long-form retrospective documentary series of Australian governments, such as Labor in Power and The Howard Years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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