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Tens of thousands of visitors will stream through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this holiday season. Those attending one of the various receptions will be treated to, among other things, chocolate-dipped cookies shaped like White House dogs Barney and Miss Beazley. This year's theme, "Holiday in the National Parks," means models of U.S. landmarks--such as the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore--will deck the halls...
...Earlier, nerves were palpable. While the exit polls were encouraging and the swing to Labor was on, not enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...
...After demoralizing defeats under Kim Beazley and Mark Latham, Labor is hoping Kevin Rudd, the former diplomat from Queensland, can end its 11-year power drought. If he does, these are the faces Australians will be seeing a lot more...
...Beazley's leadership entered palliative care, Rudd was already laying out his claim. While other Labor players and pollsters were occupied with Beazley's fate, Rudd was trying to take down Howard. In an essay about faith in politics for The Monthly magazine last October, Rudd eulogized a personal hero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian and martyr who opposed the Nazi state. Rudd's targets were the Christian right and the incumbents in Canberra. He claimed Howard employed "radioactive soundbites" to manipulate the truth and called for "a new premium attached to truth in public life." In the next issue...
...right salesman. His first TV commercial is a highlights reel for someone who could have starred in Australia's Brainiest Kid or It's Academic: from bush school to the Australian National University ? and beyond! Learning is at the "kitchen table" of middle Australian families, to quote the vanquished Beazley; the self-employed and middle-income parents who obsess about education and private-school fees and have lately voted for Howard will take a very close look at Rudd's education policies in the coming months. Of course, if Labor does not cost them properly, or is too cosy with...