1. He racked up a phone bill of almost $30,000 in just six months, far more than any other Government minister. How does a back bencher with no portfolio manage to run up a $29,676 phone bill in just six months??? Rudd's phone bill was ten times that of Gillard. Apparently, much of Rudd's phone bill consists of international calls.

2. Kate Lundy was not informed by Rudd that she had lost the Sport portfolio. She found out through Albanese and a media release from Rudd's office. I thought Rudd said he'd be more consultative this time around?

Rudd is winning.

Tony has no policies -
he just an opposition attack dog not a PM.

skippy. wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 7:58am:



It's both funny and delightful.

That look of fear on Tony's face.

Lovin' it   

armchair, i dont know if rudd needs to change.

now i think he's a little weasel but my 2 daughters love the guy.
and are almost wanting to hand out "how to vote' cards for him.

he's an interesting phenomenom. i cant quite put my finger on it but the rudd 'phenomenom' is going to make this election very close.

Armchair_Politician

I think everyone knows what Rudd is and what Gillard was, seems the electorate is quite happy seeing Rudd do his camouflage make the ALP look more right wing than it is strategy, I have never bought his rubbish neither do I buy he has changed or can change.

How many people over 50 can change their ways ? What makes a complicit character like Rudd more capable of change ?
Also in 3 years ?

If the electorate wants a grub like Rudd then again the ALP has to fail before the electorate wakes up.

What Rudds ministers say about Rudd :-


“The stories that were around of the chaos, of the temperament, of the inability to have decisions made – they are not stories”.
(Tony Burke, 22 February 2012)

Rudd’s new Youth Minister, Kate Ellis, said of him:

“Kevin Rudd is the person who has been talking down the Prime Minister (Gillard) in deeply personal ways for well over a year, during the last election campaign and since then”.
(Kate Ellis, 24 February 2012)

Defence Minister Stephen Smith said:

“If you wanted one sentence why the Cabinet and the Caucus and the party moved away from Kevin, it was because it became increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to work difficult issues through with him”.
(Stephen Smith, 23 February 2012)

And most extraordinarily, the person who Rudd asked to preside over our nation’s critical mining industry, Resources Minister Gary Gray, had this to say only ten days ago:

“He (Rudd) doesn't have the courage and the strength that's required to do this job. What he can do is spread confusion. What he can do is get himself into the media. What he can do is create a lot of torment. What he can't do is govern and what he can't do is lead the Labor Party”.

I  hear all that but i still think that tony should be very concerned.

my daughters are level headed. geez my cousin is a liberal candidate and my girls helped hand out how to votes for her, but they LOVE kevvie.   i could evict them i suppose but i prefer to study this phenomenom.  and their friends love him too , and this from kids who DESPISED gillard.

he has some rockstar quality.  he has a cockiness and a confidence which is well suited to the sound bite.

the electorate wont get all that cloak and dagger stuff. they just see a  bloke with charisma  and lets face it  tony has zippo.

we are going to have to use the reasoning of lao tzu and sun tzu to beat kevvie.

ultimately, the only way to beat kevvie is to let kevvie beat himself. 

is there time for him to trip up.

he is mad if he doesnt call the election soon.

if he does win, my prediction is his government would be SO CHAOTIC  labor would be out for 20 years.  might be a good one for tony to throw?

aquascoot wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 8:39am:


It's simple: Kevin is into populist politics. He tells people what he thinks they want to hear. His failed border security policy is a fine example of how badly things can go wrong when you utilise populist politics. More than 40,000 people on over 700 boats since scrapping the Pacific Solution and more than 1,000 people have died at sea. That's populist politics. Just because it makes people happy, doesn't make it right.