Kevin Rudd today used his opening address to the ALP National Conference to paint his Government as one firmly in the Labor tradition: all social safety nets and nation-building. By his standards it was “soaring rhetoric”.
Political oratory
Senior Liberals now reconciled and relaxed
One suspects that in years to come, Brendan Nelson’s speech in reply to the Prime Minister’s apology to the Stolen Generations will be known chiefly for how it was jeered and rejected. Such an outcome is unfair on him and unfair on the Coalition, writes David MacCormack.
