Van Onselen rips Krudd a new one in today's Oz - spineless and not worthy of wiping Gough's shoes

Jeez Peter, tell us what you really think why don't ya? There are only two explanations for what Rudd has done: he is a weak leader who should find another profession (perhaps go back into the bureaucracy) because he won't do what he believes is right if it carries risks; or, worse still, he is a fraud who used inflated rhetoric to whip up hysteria about climate change but is running away from having done so because the political winds have shifted. Neither possibility is particularly edifying for a national leader. Full article here Cartoon by Bill Leak, (who, even if I don't agree with most of his politics is, I think, the best political cartoonist in Australia), and also from today's The Weekend Australian.

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