Betrayal

Simon Benson's explosive tell-all book reveals Kevin Rudd's betrayal of Australia's most populous State, that led to an elected Premier's forced resignation, exposing the Labor Party as one no longer focused on policy but politics.  An insiders' account of Australian Labor Party machinations, from the Prime Minister down. It reveals nasty secrets about how the Labor Party is run today, and how today politics dramatically runs over policy. It will make readers wonder about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's methods with worrying implications for federal Labor's prospects, and for Australia. BETRAYAL reveals these insights through The Daily Telegraph's Chief Political Reporter Simon Benson's detailed exposé of an extremely vicious, behind-the-scenes battle over a few clapped out power stations in NSW... when the Labor Party machine brought down an elected Premier and helped cripple Australia's most populous State. Simon Benson's explosive tell-all book reveals Kevin Rudd's betrayal of Australia's most populous State, that led to an elected Premier's forced resignation, exposing the Labor Party as one no longer focused on policy but politics.  An insiders' account of Australian Labor Party machinations, from the Prime Minister down. It reveals nasty secrets about how the Labor Party is run today, and how today politics dramatically runs over policy. It will make readers wonder about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's methods with worrying implications for federal Labor's prospects, and for Australia. BETRAYAL reveals these insights through The Daily Telegraph's Chief Political Reporter Simon Benson's detailed exposé of an extremely vicious, behind-the-scenes battle over a few clapped out power stations in NSW... when the Labor Party machine brought down an elected Premier and helped cripple Australia's most populous State.

Award-winning journalist Simon Benson is chief national political reporter for Sydney's The Daily Telegraph, where he has worked since 1994. He is the author of BETRAYAL. During the events that led to the collapse of NSW's Iemma government, one of the State's most turbulent political periods, Simon was The Daily Telegraph's NSW political editor, and also president of the NSW Parliamentary Press Gallery.A former environment editor, Simon won the Australian Eureka Prize in 2001 for environmental journalism.He grew up in Melbourne and studied philosophy before completing a postgraduate degree in journalism. Simon is married to SBS journalist Peta-Jane Madam and lives in Sydney's inner city suburb of Woolloomooloo.