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...After chewing up the first week talking about himself, Rudd traversed the country on a "Listening Tour" to hear the voices on the street. He got immediate results. In Bundaberg, only hours into the jaunt, Rudd told ABC local radio that he'd met a bloke in town who was worried about fairness in the workplace. "He's not concerned about himself," he said, "but he's concerned about his grandkids-to use his term-grandkids being guinea pigs in the new system of industrial relations Mr. Howard has set up." Only the previous week, Rudd had told listeners...
...room. In interviews he often talks down to his host and listeners. One of his tics, and there are numerous variations, is to preface part of an answer with a question: "You know why?" When challenged with serious probing, he appears affronted. Asked about federalism by ABC-TV's Kerry O'Brien, he wielded the word "actually" like a stick. "Well, actually, that's not the approach I've got at all, Kerry. I've just got a healthy regard for what state governments actually do. I used to work for one. I actually understand the critical role which they...
...hour day, that would still be two hours and 40 minutes, a hefty chunk of time. Perhaps sensing that for once the high road might offer a competitive advantage in the Nielsen race, ABC news reported on its website today that its staff were being urged not to use the videos anymore. "Obviously, in the first news cycle, there's some breaking news value to that video," said Jeffrey W. Schneider, one of the network 's senior vice presidents. "Once that news cycle has passed, the repeated broadcasting of the material has little news value, and becomes pornographic...
...fatally shot himself - badly disfiguring his face - before police could engage him, but officials were able to identify him hours later from the fingerprints in his immigration documents, according to ABC News...