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...November, Rudd was on a roll as he addressed Sydney's Centre for Independent Studies, whose spiritual core revolves around free markets and individual liberty. He took a cudgel to the think tank's idol, Friedrich Hayek, and his "intellectual creature" John Howard for what he termed their assault on social justice. Rudd described a modern dystopia of debt and high interest rates, materialism, childhood obesity, time pressure on families and societal anxiety about the future. "The dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued...
...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 on nationally syndicated 2UE radio: "I don't think people listening to your program want their kids to become human guinea pigs in Mr. Howard's radical and extreme industrial relations experiment." Rudd was cutting through to voters...
...Part of Rudd's early success is due to his strategic prowess and his party's obedience. Being a Howard critic was the first phase of Doing a Kevin. As ALP leader, Rudd has tried to exude a mainly positive message, and he's been able to control the agenda. Labor has settled on many of the issues that suit it and the times. It has rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd...
...economic escalator." Go back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade. It's the area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve...
...Howard has not yet revealed the tactics he will use to try to close down the Kevin Rudd show. People who watch these players for a living are beginning to think that the P.M., caught up in his party's travails, has not yet got Rudd's measure. The government's attempt to tar him for his association with Labor felon Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs...