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.