Kevin Rudd’s new code of ministerial conduct is a welcome step in the right direction, but it still falls well short of what is required to restore public confidence in government, writes Norman Abjorensen.
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Crikey / Friday, 7 December 2007
Rudd might look for the moment like a man boldly constructing a new Westminster from the dark satanic rubble of the ancien regime, but the test will come. Someone, sometime in Team Rudd will test the bounds of the Code of Kevin Conduct … how will the Prime Minister act then?