Image problems for both Rudd and Abbott...
March 21st 2010 00:55
Image problems for both Rudd and Abbott...
Canberra this week: The rush of the oncoming election is stripping the lustre from the two men who are already sparring for the leadership of Australia.
The latest opinion poll has shown a further marked fall in the personal popularity of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the one-time golden boy who once reached a record peak in voter satisfaction for the job he was doing.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has narrowed Rudd's lead to the surprise of many but is now facing rebellion and anger in the ranks, and has fallen victim to the flaying tongue of former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Keating, the man who turned vitriol into a political art form and who famously described the Senate as "unrepresentative swill", yesterday lashed Abbott as an "intellectual nobody", a "sort of resident nutter", and a "poor man's John Howard".
Abbott was a minister in Howard's long-running conservative government, ousted by Rudd in 2007.
"Do we want little John Howard?" Keating told ABC radio.
"It was bad enough having the real John Howard!"
Whats next? Must be elections coming!
Canberra this week: The rush of the oncoming election is stripping the lustre from the two men who are already sparring for the leadership of Australia.
The latest opinion poll has shown a further marked fall in the personal popularity of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the one-time golden boy who once reached a record peak in voter satisfaction for the job he was doing.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has narrowed Rudd's lead to the surprise of many but is now facing rebellion and anger in the ranks, and has fallen victim to the flaying tongue of former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Keating, the man who turned vitriol into a political art form and who famously described the Senate as "unrepresentative swill", yesterday lashed Abbott as an "intellectual nobody", a "sort of resident nutter", and a "poor man's John Howard".
Abbott was a minister in Howard's long-running conservative government, ousted by Rudd in 2007.
"Do we want little John Howard?" Keating told ABC radio.
"It was bad enough having the real John Howard!"
Whats next? Must be elections coming!
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