Australia's former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was booted out as PM during his first term by Julia Gillard. Now that she got elected (by the three independents that chose Labor in this hung parliament), Rudd has been angling to return the favour to Gillard. She'd gotten sick of this, and was threatening to sack him. Rudd beat her to the punch, and resigned in Washington. Now Rudd is former Foreign Affairs Minister, and leadership questions keep arising.
I guess we can at least enjoy this as farce - as long as the Chinese keep buying Australian resources, this makes it less likely that value-destroying legislation will be passed.
Tim Blair lays on the mockery, while Andrew Bolt rounds up the reactions of the commentariat.
As Henry Kissinger reputedly said about the Iran-Iraq war - it's a shame they can't both lose.
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