The heading on this column in June 2007 was “Rudd is a Dud”. Kevin Rudd certainly surprised me with his electoral victory some months later, but he has used the prime ministership chiefly as a shop window to display all the deficiencies I had noted, plus a whole catalogue of unsuspected others. His government already ranks way below Whitlam’s. Now, as in 2007, these words are being written soon after Anzac Day, against a background feeling of reassurance that (notwithstanding its many serious problems and perplexities) Australia is OK. There is something sound at the heart of a people who,…
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