IT Pelican is not well known Rudd would be a disaster!
The very same polls that tell us Gillard has been a failure.
Point to Rudd as the preferred leader.
I wounder how you got that idea? unproven and sure to be proved wrong if Gillard, for any reason steps down/is replaced.
Knowing the ONLY challenge Rudd made, failed is no pointer to current speculation.
But it proves too that some in the party do not care much about its future if they go down with Gillard that will be imposable to ignore.
50/50 that is how it stands right now, very few want Gillard in and out side the party.
But do the likes of Shorten care? once I would never have doubted him, now self interest seems more important that party to him.

Belly
Do you still have Labor mates in the party. Ask a few of them. It is not that some of the Labor Caucus want Rudd for himself, it is about saving seats especially in QLD.

Arjay
You are right. Both sides of politics are not listening. It is a shame that in Australia we are pushed for the most part, to vote for the least worst.

Delighted to kick Gillard's crew out in Queensland. A dead cat would poll better than Julia Gillard, or her lurking side-kick and sleeper, Christine Milne (shudder, shudder).

Julia Gillard did a seagull whistle stop visit after the Queensland floods, deigned to tell all to carry on and fend for themselves (which they were already doing no thanks to Julia!), and then jetted off for long cushy travel overseas throwing millions of taxpayers' money away wherever she went to ingratiate herself.

Here is hoping there will never be another PM and federal ministers as self-serving as Gillard and her mob. Not that they will ever be letting go of the public teat when they are finally dislodged. They have big benefits to come, for their 'partners' too and for life.

Pelican writes

'You are right. Both sides of politics are not listening '

is that why the Liberal/National party look like winning more seats than any other for a long time. My advice then is don't listen especially to the mob that lies about climate change, that has loaded on Australia ten of thousands of refugees who paid people smugglers to get here before destroying their papers, whose policies have proven barbaric along with the Greens which has resulted in thousand plus men women and children drowning, to a Government that has spent money like no other, has left a dreadful mess. Thankfully with about 58% of people likely to vote for Liberal/national they can stop listening to the extreme small loud minorities normally given a voice by the ABC.

i hope Liberal/National don't listen to Labour or the rest of its 28% or so of Government workers unions and failed ideologist.

Wouldn't stepping down cost her some pension benefits?

It that's the case, fat chance, ours & Buckley's.

Listen up all to these important words. Abbott is going to get it so put pressure on him to take control of our Reserve Bank. The RBA should be at least creating our inflationary money of 3%.Our private banks borrow $35 billion pa from OS banks just to service our mortgages.

We lose out 3 times just with the creation of inflationary money as debt. First by depreciation of our currency, then having to repay the principal and lastly repaying the interest. Our private banks will also benefit here because more money will say here to enhance their money creation system. Banks are allowed to create from nothing $100 worth loans with just $10 worth of deposits.