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...First on Rudd's list after ratifying Kyoto is to start rolling back the WorkChoices laws. Howard said that if these laws were reversed, no Liberal government would ever again attempt serious industrial-relations reform. But Rudd's program could be slowed by the Senate, which the Coalition will control for the next seven months. After July next year, it appears that Greens and Independents will hold the balance of power. Labor won many of its lower-house seats with Green preferences, and the Greens are much further to the left than Rudd. Greens Senator Kerry Nettle warned before...
...foreign policy, Rudd is expected to stick largely to Howard's way. Australia will remain a "rock solid" friend of the U.S. but reserve the right to act "independently." It will be more deferential to the U.N., and may also be more alert to the sensitivities of China. Rudd has criticized Beijing's human-rights record, but when the Howard government advocated an alliance between Australia, the U.S., Japan and India, he rejected the idea, saying it would make China feel encircled...
...Rudd left the stage in triumph Saturday night, some in the audience wondered whether he will maintain his Howard-like campaign face or become more Labor-like. The party's "true believers" hope, along with political commentator Robert Manne, that "when he gets into government, then we'll begin to see the differences again." Voters who swung to Labor only after Rudd moved toward the center may be praying those differences stay small...
After so long in opposition, victory is a sweet but strange fruit for the Labor faithful packed into a function room at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. Between the party notching its election-winning 76th seat and the arrival on stage of Kevin Rudd, guests are occupied mostly by their own thoughts. "The polls had been good for so long . . . then came the bad ones yesterday," says silver-haired Tony Smith, a "booth captain" in Rudd's seat of Griffith. "Now it's relief...
...Finally, Rudd and family - his wife, two sons, daughter and son-in-law - are on stage and the emotional dam breaks. The winner is composed, respectful to the vanquished; everyone is thanked in just the right order. He strikes a balance between maintaining the conservative tone of his campaign and tossing some juicy bones to the true believers. A reference to the "great Australian trade union movement" and a declaration to be "a P.M. for all Australians - a P.M. for indigenous Australians" draw the loudest cheers. Later, as they spill into the mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze...