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Thanks for this diary, is it good news for us that the ALP have won?  My instinct says yes, since it ought to be better than the 'conservatives' staying in but you likened Rudd to a Tony Blair figure...

Signing right up to the Kyoto treaty is promising.  I'd be interested to hear your views on what the win might mean for Australia.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 09:48:05 AM EST
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Listening to Rudd giving his acceptance speech, he did not come over as a phony like Tony. However there is no doubt Rudd has positioned Labor to the right of its traditional positions. This is the Australian version of the Clinton/Blair triangulation strategy.

However it is encouraging that Rudd has not sold his soul to Rupert Murdoch. The Australian arm of the Murdoch Empire was backing the coalition.

Rudd should be better than Howard. I hope he does not prove as disappointing in the long term as Blair did.

by Gary J on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 11:35:25 AM EST
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There was an article about him n Le Monde a few days ago that noted that he would be the first ever Western leader to be fluent in the Chinese language (Mandarin, I think), and noting how the relationship with China was becoming as important, if not more, as that with the US.

Australia is China's quarry, right now.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 12:15:13 PM EST
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