Comrade Rudd addresses the intelligensia summoned to his Great Hall of the Working FamilyIt was essentially a ritualistic cleansing of the backward thinking that had permeated all facets of Australian politics and political economy, of which Third Way "Keatingite" economics must struggle amongst the tentacle-like restraints of economic rationalism. Not that Labor gives a shit about monetary and fiscal policy anyway - they deregulated most of that shit in the 80s, and is now just "conventional sense" in the bureaucracy in the strictest interpretation of the term.
How to act as a facilitator rather than a service provider is the biggest challenge for Rudd-baby to crack a nut and deliver his promised programs (some of which are completely retarded - universal enrollment of voters? And which privacy laws will you trample over to get that information?) without breaking his budget surplus. All of which will only cause an inflation of the utterances of "working families", elevating it to an even higher abstraction than it ever was previously.