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Kevin Rudd for PM

He's a lying little sleaze ball, I wish Abbott would give him a punch n the face from all of us.
The Galaxy poll attached to a link in that article shows how much of a failure the resurrection of Kevin Rudd as PM has been in the eyes of the electorate.

The best that can be said for Labor is that he's perhaps saved some furniture in comparison to where Julia Gillard was heading. I imagine many within the Labor Party will now be hoping his own electorate will finish his political career off to make the whole exercise worth it.
 

What is annoying me is that the ABC is going flat out to support him against all reason.

All the articles on the ABC web site are pro Labor today.


The Age supporting him means that Fairfax is worse than I thought.
 
Labor's continual Abbott, Abbott, Abbott,cut,cut,cut campaign is pathetic.

The last six years have been pathetic and they have carried it on into the last hours of this election.

Hopefully the decimated Party will get rid of Rudd (if the electorate does not) and his hangers on Albanese, Bowen,Wong and Plibersek and start rebuilding with new non union/legal/political plebs and get some people with a more worldly view, especially the business world (have a look at how a business runs - profit and loss, debt!!).
 
Ministers within the current government effectively concede the obvious.


Strategists on both sides predict Labor could lose about 20 seats to be left with just 50.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-remains-defiant/story-fn9qr68y-1226713007032
 
I agree. If Rudd loses his seat, it saves them the blood letting which would be inevitable post election.

If he can save himself, I still have no sense of whether he would leave politics anyway (causing a by-election) or still allow his hubristic delusion that he can ultimately succeed.

What is annoying me is that the ABC is going flat out to support him against all reason.
That actually hasn't been the case on much of what I've heard on Radio National. On "The World Today", Samantha Hawley, who has been travelling with the PM, could hardly have been more critical about the shambles of a campaign that Rudd has run. And some of Fran Kelly's questions have been anything but kind when interviewing various members of the government.

They have, however, been completely untruthful by reporting that the Coalition is 'cutting foreign aid' rather than reducing the increase to foreign aid.

They've certainly had a good go at the Coalition over the botched censorship mess, and reasonably so, imo.
After all the protestations about the fundamental need for freedom of choice/expression etc, if they were to introduce any sort of mandatory filter they'd never live it down.


It seems to depend a lot on the individual journalist. Stephen Long, e.g. would find a way to blame the Coalition for the fairies not being at the bottom of the garden.
 

This has really stood out to me in the last week of the election. its really annoying, especially coming from a party that claimed to be positive this election.

The thing thats also really getting to me, is how all the die hard Labor supporters are crying foul about Murdoch being biased. Maybe they've forgotten about the last election and how the ABC have been portraying this election
 
The script for the stuff he's on runs out tomorrow and he won't find going cold turkey a second time around any easier.
 
Such a good point. We didn't hear Rudd crying foul in 2007 when the Murdoch press so championed him.
 

To his credit, I don't recall Abbott complaining about the bias of the ABC in this election campaign...
 
Not wanting to be cynical, but now Rudd has been Prime Minister for the last six weeks. Does that mean he qualifies for the 40% increase in pension.
 
I watched and waited for an agonising 22 minutes for the fat lady to sing. But she continued to nod approvingly and wear a victory smile for the whole time. I think he was following her script.

[video]http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2404735369/Kevin-Rudd-stands-down-as-Labor-leader[/video]
 
If Kevin Rudd stays on as a backbencher, he will try and control any future leader of the ALP.

Far be it from to give advice to Labor, but they really need to convince him to leave, otherwise he will white ant another leader.

gg
 
If Kevin Rudd stays on as a backbencher, he will try and control any future leader of the ALP.

Far be it from to give advice to Labor, but they really need to convince him to leave, otherwise he will white ant another leader.

gg

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Australia will lose the election if Kev doesn't go for good.
 
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