Published: December 18, 2018
Would-be prime minister embraces ex-PM but the rank-and-file remains lukewarm
It’s quite something, almost a decade after his defenestration, how Kevin Rudd’s pain expands in enclosed spaces. In the cavernous main hall of the Adelaide convention centre, Rudd’s injury filled the room.
Australia’s 26th prime minister, never much beloved by the party’s rank-and-file, not one of the union fraternity, and clearly battling a heavy cold imported from the northern hemisphere, took to the stage at Labor’s national conference on Tuesday to accept the honour of life membership.
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