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...exactly isn't the Labor leader doing out there? Now that broad directions are being sketched out, where does Rudd plan to take the country if he wins the election? Some see shades of Bill Clinton, others detect an echo of British New Labour's Third Way. At a Canberra truck depot last month, a reporter asked Rudd: "Are you doing a Tony Blair?" He responded: "I'm doing a Kevin. And let me tell you, that means putting our best step forward for the economy of the 21st century and that means no turning back. It means that...
...first speech to Parliament on Remembrance Day 1998, the member for Griffith began: "Politics is about power." For those listening in the House that day, Rudd spoke about political philosophy, the role of the state, the great policy challenges facing the nation and his personal road to Canberra. About halfway through, he said: "I believe that the nation needs a revolution in its education system." It's the sort of speech you'd expect from someone in a hurry to get some power-and Rudd, then 41, was. "I have no intention of being here for the sake of just...
...Rudd's fortes are foreign affairs, federalism and microphones. While he astutely made alliances with media executives, business people, diplomats and academics, Rudd also cultivated a mass audience among those neglected by Canberra's bubble people. Rudd talked his way into a weekly spot on the Sunrise breakfast TV show. For five years (until he and Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, finally exhausted the gig last week), Rudd was exposed to, and thus became one of the few M.P.s known by, the politically disengaged: busy mothers and retirees turned off by issues-driven AM radio...
...think so many in your profession support Democrats over Republicans? -Roy Emery from Canberra, Australia...
...Labor side of Australian politics. The Opposition is high on a bubble of sparkling opinion polls. Bring on the election! Party leader Kevin Rudd speaks and moves with the authority of an alternative Prime Minister, something his folk have not heard and seen for some time. Last week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced and a page longer than Howard...