Australia came through the global financial crisis on the crest of a wave and most economists agree, both Labor and Liberal, that it was due to the strategies put in place by our Labor Prime Minister, 52 year old Kevin Rudd. Yesterday he was admitted to hospital and is recuperating from a gall bladder operation in Brisbane's Mater Private Hospital.
He was out campaigning until the eleventh hour. Suffering severe abdominal pain, he attended the open day at an Anglican College and cheefully posed for photographs with students and chatted with parents. By lunchtime, he was in hospital, ready to have his gall bladder removed.
Gall bladder removal is one of the most routine operations in Australia with more than 17,000 procedures performed in 2008/09 - more than hip and knee replacement surgery combined. Normally done through keyhole surgery, it's considered safe, with surgeons putting the risk of serious complications at about 1 per cent or slightly higher when the surgery becomes urgent, as apparently happened in Mr Rudd's case. In these circumstances, there is a higher chance that surgeons have to open the abdominal cavity and conduct open surgery.
Senior surgeons say the condition is not related to stress but I disagree. After what this man has been through in the last 6 weeks, it's a miracle he's still standing. I'll never forget the day he was sacked, he walked into the chamber and took a seat way up in the back benches, all by himself, looking terribly sad. He didn't have to be there - most people would have left the building as soon as possible after such a devastating personal coup but he did it anyway. Now he's being called a snake and a coward. When you take a close look at Kevin Rudd's behaviour, it simply isn't true.
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