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A “Ruddwatch” Reprise: Kevin O’Nepotism Rides Again

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FIVE WEEKS AGO — canvassing the need in this column for Kevin Rudd to quit Parliament and leave his beleaguered party in peace — we discussed the prospect of him being replaced as the ALP candidate in Griffith by his daughter, Jessica. Rudd said he wanted to find a seat for her. Now he has.

I am reposting on this subject because I have found, during the day, that a lot of traffic has been coming into this site from searches around whether Kevin Rudd’s daughter, Jessica, might replace him as Labor’s candidate in his marginal Brisbane seat.

Readers can access one of our “Ruddwatch” pieces — “Kevin O’Nepotism Rides Again” — which deals with exactly this question here.

And certainly, whilst reports are mixed, there is nonetheless ample suggestion emanating from some sections of the ALP today that Rudd may well have done the deal to attempt to send Jessica to Canberra via his own seat.

I stand by the comments I made in the original article, and encourage those who didn’t see the article when it was first posted to click through the link and read it.

But now the spectre of another Rudd in Parliament is a very real possibility, I have a few additional points to make.

The 30-year-old Jessica Rudd — unlike her nihilistic father — articulates a politics based well to Labor’s left, which, indeed, would sit comfortably with the Greens; I don’t think this is the kind of outlook that needs to be cultivated in Australian Parliaments, and I don’t care whose daughter she is.

In any case, Jessica lives in Beijing: this is not some high calibre “star” being recalled to sit in Parliament based on a lengthy career of success in business or some other service; this is someone who is based elsewhere for personal reasons, and who has severed her active connection to the electorate some in the ALP now apparently seek to inflict her on.

So much for the notion of a “local” member.

And to be entirely blunt about it, what — apart from being the daughter of Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein — has Jessica Rudd done to merit a seat in Parliament at all?

No, I didn’t think so.

We’ll see how this plays out, but if Jessica Rudd is the ALP candidate facing the LNP’s Bill Glasson come by-election time, her presence on the ballot will aid Glasson — not the ALP.

 



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