I would suggest that anyone who expects Kevin Rudd to have any different ideas from Kim Beazley is going to be sadly disappointed, one of his first utterances yesterday was that "we are going to regain the centre." We already have a party of the centre, they're called the Liberals, and that has been the Labor party's problem for far too long, they have just been echoing the Libs policies, with the exception of industrial relations. What I would like to see is a party that has, for instance, a foreign policy that considers what's good for Australia first before committing us to ANYONE'S idea of being the world's policeman, a party that considers the good of the poor and marginalised in society, a party that does something about the environment other than just talk, I could go on but what's the use, I expect to see the second coming of Christ before I see a Labor party with some guts and compassion.
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