The real Rudd legacy

WAS it only a year ago that Team Rudd occupied the government benches? Actually, it wasn’t. Back then it was noted home renovator and power-of-attorney drafter Julia Gillard who was leading the nation, but Rudd was waiting and plotting and scheming and preparing to demonstrate how a real PM goes about the nation’s business. Out of power and out of Parliament, Rudd was mercifully out of mind until the Pink Batts Royal Commission put him in the witness box this week. But don’t fret. Testimony concluded, he’ll soon and once again be no more than a self-important and rather unsettling memory.

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