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July 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By his side … Therese Rein with her husband, Labor MP Kevin Rudd. Photo: Andrew Meares
On June 21 2010, three days before the grim reaper arrived, your columnist wrote of the pressure building on then prime minister Kevin Rudd: ”Behind him sits a restive, fickle backbench that never loved him, watching their margins, and pensions, and doing the sums on a point-of-no-return: the tap on the shoulder moment. Ruthless ALP strategists wonder if KR is damaging the brand … A fun redhead is breathing down his neck, coyly denying but smiling.”
Goodness gracious – how the tables have turned. The electorate may, in Rob Oakeshott’s phrase, be ”thoroughly sick and tired of Labor leadership speculation” but it’s hard to avoid when being furnished by Rudd intimates and senior Labor figures every time you open a newspaper or turn on QA.
The opening salvo of the latest round began with a statement from an impeccable source – Therese Rein. The Kevster’s remarkable spouse gave stellar support to the February leadership foray, telling a newspaper ”my husband has changed” the weekend before and sending the final tweet on behalf of Camp Rudd on the morning of the ballot: ”To the thousands and thousands of people who have been expressing support love encouragement, thank you from the bottom of our hearts”.
I confess I’m a Therese Rein groupie. I find her immensely likeable and impressive, and I can barely recall a thought she has uttered with which I disagreed – with the possible exception of her judgments about Kevin, on which enthusiasms she must be granted spousal privilege. If Therese were running for prime minister – and I were a member of Labor caucus – I would vote for her. My hunch is that if she were running for high office, it could easily be as a Liberal.
So Therese comes out two weeks ago, in an interview with the Herald, and puts the position with coy finesse: ”Is it [supporting him in that role again] something I would do? I don’t know. But if I ever agreed to do that, it would be on the proviso that it was completely about the country, the national good, Australia’s place in the world … ” The article made clear Kevin would have to be offered it uncontested.
How do we interpret such a condition? It could be rephrased: ”After the last divisive and destructive challenge, we would only consider a return to the leadership in a bloodless transition with care for Julia’s dignity”. An alternative interpretation might read: ”We want to see the Labor caucus beg … Those who said Kevin was a ‘psychopath with a huge ego’, a ‘megalomaniac’, held ‘no Labor values’ – they need to grovel.”
Having Therese as the standard bearer for her husband’s ambitions presents a delicate problem for the Prime Minister. You could travel the length of the continent and struggle to find a couple better matched than Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein. He the linguist, diplomat, Christian, mandarin, social reformer, parliamentary leader and cabinet minister, she the devoted wife, sincere Christian, mother and grandmother, global entrepreneur, among the top five female wealth creators in Australia’s history.
You know you could send Therese into the White House or 10 Downing Street and she would be a great ambassador. Rein’s love for her husband is electoral gold for Labor.
Then Greg Rudd nominates as an independent for the Senate. Greg’s first interview focused on the ambitions of his (allegedly) estranged brother. Contrasting Kevin and Julia, he described federal Labor as a business performing reasonably well but suffering a complete lack of ”goodwill” to the party and its leadership. Kevin, he suggested, was the only possible alternative who could restore some of the goodwill required to salvage marginal seats.
Then I waited for the heavy ballistics.
Enter stage left the smart, telegenic author and daughter, Jessica Rudd, who produces not a children’s book but a child. Josephine Theresa Tse, 3 kilograms. This results in a (grandfatherly) tweet: ”Well folks, I’m totally stoked” … followed by an interview … or two … ” ”a little possum like this naturally makes you reflect on where your country is headed …”
Since then we hardly needed Joel Fitzgibbon, chief government whip, to tell us that if leaders stay unpopular for long enough ”they won’t continue to lead” or Labor senator Mark Bishop’s hope that Labor’s dismal polling would be a ”clarion call” to the Labor Party to ”make dramatic changes”.
Strap yourselves in Australia. This is a fight to the death.
Ross Cameron is a former federal Liberal MP
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