With the truancy-welfare bill and yesterday’s education announcements, Rudd has adopted some decidedly Howardesque policy positions, writes Bernard Keane.
Education systems
The Great Centralist, The Magnificent Micro-Manager, The All Wise One – yep, it’s John Howard
One thing Kevin “Mini-Me” Rudd would find it hard to do as Prime Minister: be more of a centralist than John Howard.
