Faulkner, maybe. Combet never, minister in charge of getting the budget back to surplus by grounding us further into the ground. Electricity cost under 3 cents to produce a kwh and the average consumer price is 28 cents.

Combet should look into the 1000 percent mark up before giving them free reign to fleece us again and how will taxing us on emissions change the global prognosis in any meaningful way. Get your greasy hands out of our pockets you elitist swine.

Re Rudd, no pun intended. He failed to implement any of his major policies correctly, they ALL brought controversy and wasted tax payer money, and he was not sharing power with Bob.

Ah Hasbeen, do not sell your self short!
You indeed are as well informed as our Green mate TBC, not at all.
He tells us his in depth view of Bill Shorten comes from brief glimpse on QaA!
Great depth, great platform to see clearly from.
Bill is far far more than that, no trickster he is a person who can rest on his achievements already,and not yet middle aged.
Yes he has an ego, but so too has every one with such talent.
Of all candidates he then Rudd are the only ones who can cut, now and forever the Mark Latham, snail trail thread that Joins him/Gillard/Crean and the awful imitation of Pyne. Joel [halfwit]Fitzgibbon.
Turn around Australia, look at the front bench of Abbott's would be government.
Like those Circus clowns mouths open , turning from side to side , hoping without hope some thing of use will come in to their empty heads.
Unlikely.

Gawd, just leave Kevie where he is, flying around the world first
class, living in luxury hotels for that million a year or so that
was quoted recently. He thinks he matters, that will keep him
occupied and Canberra wastes so much, that odd million hardly
matters in the bigger scheme of things.

Gillard faces the realpolitik of spending her days in bed with
Bob. Its either that or the opposition benches, so she'll remain
a lame duck for the term.

If you wanted to bring back past leaders who mattered, bring
back Keating or Costello, for it is because of them that Australia
is doing well today and because of them that Kevie got through the
GFC. Credit where credit is due.

Our present bunch, wether Kevie or Abbott, just don't have what it
takes.

Andreas Berg,
You simply can not be serious. Kevin Rudd hasn't learnt anything except how to get back at Julia Gillard. Of what benefit is that to us other then ridding us of her ? Kevin Rudd is an academic & therefore he is not capable of managing anything. Don't you people ever get it. The ALP isn't about building Australia, it's about ruining it. I simply can not believe the thickness of some people. Gawd !

Dear individual,

I do not believe that we have any evidence allowing to judge whether Kevin Rudd has learned from his mistakes or not unless he is given a chance to show it.
Taking into account all the circumstances of his displacement and present deficit of political leaders capable to work as prime-minister, I do believe that such a chance should be given to Mr Rudd again.

Andreas Berg,
I for one am not prepared to give him another chance just his outfit hasn't given me any. I can't afford to trust that lot at all. I have seen enough damage, haven't you ?