 Rann also ran for national presidency in the National Executive in August 2006, and made senior-vice president with 27 percent of the vote.As such, he also served a rotation of the Presidency of the ALP National Executive in 2008.Rann's earlier achievements included raising job numbers and lowering unemployment, increasing new project funding, increasing expenditure on schools, university, health and mental illness, halving rough-sleeping in the streets, making the state home to the largest amount of wind power in Australia, developing hot rock power, and utilising solar power for the public service.