Don't hold your breathe here lego, most think they are essential services.

I don't see that Howard/Gillard and Keating/Rudd were/are much different from each other. At the end of the day they're all about protecting the firm. They're all all-about the same corrupt business, just different styles. The difference comes down to the scars of childhood. Keating and Rudd have bigger egos (troubled childhoods) and imagine Australia (narcissistically, an extension of themselves) somehow relevant (apart from hyperbole) in the world. Howard and Gillard are more modestly contented (in the Menzies vein) and happy to play the part of sex-toy to the big players (the endless procession of megalomaniac US presidents. Thank God for two terms and you're out!). Rudd, like Keating was, is just "out of control" (code for he believes his own bulldust).
Howard was always an obsequious little toady to the US and Gillard's the same. Meanwhile the "Aussie battlers" (sic) bear these ghastly "misrepresentations" phlegmatically..
The main thing is that the illusion that it all makes sense (for the voting majority with shares in the firm) is maintained.