Looks like Kevin Rudd is the new leader of the Labor Party. I think that I am pleased. I don’t know all that much but to be honest Kim Beazley never really impressed me. In on almost everything that I believe in (except maybe the IR laws and global warming) he had the same attitude as John Howard. I am not sure that, that will change as the Herald said yesterday it was really a choice between “right and righter” but he does seem like a genuinely good man and some what interested in social justice and many people that I respect think so too so here’s hoping.

It would be soooooo good if Labor won the next election. I am very tired of John and would really like a leader that I respected. A leader who I trusted so even if s/he made a decision I didn’t necessarily agree with I could feel okay about that as I believed that they were capable and really trying to work for the best interests of the majority of Australians including the poor not just the rich. And most of all I would really like a leader who I felt actually listened to the people. Again I don’t know if Kevin Rudd is that person but I think there is more chance of it than Kim Beazley. However you have to feel sorry for him. He has been the leader for so many years but never been the prime minister and on the same day who loses the leadership his brother dies. That has to suck.

So anyway go Kevin and go Julia. And go Labor. I do hope that under this leadership they will get the party together to win teh next election.