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...interviewers who ask about his public image or leadership style. The needle on an Aussie fake detector, however, can swing wildly if the device gets too close to a white-hot political marvel. On a recent sunny morning, Rudd is scheduled to visit a school in Prime Minister John Howard's Sydney electorate. He's running late. Two dozen reporters and photographers are gathered in an arc near the school's entrance. Rudd's car arrives, the leader emerges, and a greeting party, including local Laboristas, moves his way. Cameras whirr, reporters edge a little closer. As he shakes...
...What is not in dispute is that since he became leader of the Australian Labor Party on Dec. 4, Rudd has set the temper of national politics. In the published opinion polls, the 49-year-old Queenslander has hurtled past Howard early in an election year; Labor leads the Coalition by an improbable 59% to 41%, on a two-party basis, according to the latest Newspoll. On the poll's question of who is better to lead the country, Rudd is ahead of Howard 48% to 36%. Rudd's job description, as he told reporters in Sydney before embarking...
...that voters have simply grown tired of Howard, who was first elected in March 1996. But while Howard runs the country, Rudd runs around the country: laying bricks, painting Easter bunnies, answering trivia questions about Britney. What 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...
...career. The Cole inquiry into the involvement of wheat exporter AWB Ltd. in Saddam Hussein's manipulation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program was another step up for Rudd. He showed his colleagues that he could dig in for a long fight, keeping political pressure on the Howard government last year despite no evidence of ministerial misconduct. It was a complicated brief to try to implicate the government in the $300 million scam, especially as the company's executives were the focus. But the experience proved that Rudd and his young advisers were relentless. Month after month, Rudd...
...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...