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...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...
...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...
...dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands for is supposed to be enhanced, not undermined, by Hayek's economic revolution." A few weeks later, Rudd was Labor leader. The lines tested on elite opinion ("a bridge too far," "reclaim the center ground") were now fed into a media machine that couldn't get enough of this smiling new man promising a new leadership style and fresh everything-ideas, vision, energy...
...Parliament had stretched to "nearly a decade." A diplomat from 1981 to 1988, Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when Wayne Goss was Premier. After he failed in his attempt to enter federal politics at the 1996 election, he worked as a China consultant for management firm KPMG-which in Rudd's telling gives him credentials "running a business...
...right thing to do. John Howard would do the same thing." To vaunt his own authority, Rudd recently convened a national summit on climate change and invited miners, scientists, environmentalists and policy makers to confer. A stunt? Yes. But the coverage helped widen his lead on what Labor argues is the great moral issue...