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...Bill Shorten "We are a party of hope and innovation and change." Experience: Australian Workers' Union national secretary Widely touted as a future Labor leader, Shorten shot to national prominence as the public face of efforts to rescue two trapped miners in Tasmania last year. He's young, smart, articulate - and well-connected on both sides of politics: his wife is the daughter of former federal Liberal M.P. Julian Beale. Running for a safe Labor seat, he is destined for a ministry...
...Lindsay Tanner "Australia is one of the few countries in the world where academic is a term of derision." Experience: Shadow Minister for Finance since 2005 Seen as one of Labor's thinkers, Tanner has published several books, most recently arguing that Australians are "losing our sense of connection with each other." The former trade union leader has received less attention than some of his colleagues but would make an interesting member of a Labor Cabinet. Rudd has confirmed he would be Finance Minister...
...Peter Garrett "Climate change is the greatest challenge we face." Experience: Shadow Climate Change and Environment Minister; former Australian Conservation Foundation head and rock singer A star Labor recruit in 2004, Garrett has disappointed with a series of campaign blunders that could cost him the ministry, but he'll retain appeal among young voters with his rock-star and green-crusader pedigree. Has been accused of going quiet on his convictions in an effort to tone down his radical image...
...points of difference between the Labor Party and the Liberal-National government is over whether Australia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, thereby committing the nation to reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions. Labor leader Kevin Rudd calls climate change "the moral challenge of our generation" and says he will sign on to Kyoto "without delay" if his 10-point poll lead translates to victory. Prime Minister John Howard has refused to ratify Kyoto because it limits the emissions only of developed nations. For him the top election issue is the economy: "I don't think the world is going to come...
...matter what Canberra does, the effects on the world's climate "are likely to be extremely small," says Australian National University economist Alex Robson, "almost certainly zero." Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues, with Howard, that climate change cannot be addressed without coordinated action by all major emitters. But Labor, he says, takes the view that "we must purify ourselves, regardless of how poor it makes us to become pure...