Left: Kevin Rudd.  Right: Moonface from ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’.

Oh, wait.  Is it uncool to be a liberal voter now?  Has Kevin Rudd polluted so many young Australians’ minds with his promise for ‘New Leadership’ (which, coincidentally, is so obviously borrowed from the ‘New Labour’ led by Tony Blair in the late 1990s) that it is now the ‘in’ thing to be ‘down’ with ‘Rudders’?  I’m sorry, but I voted for John Howard and I’m proud of that fact.  Kevin Rudd might be ’sorry’ for everything that has happened in Australia since white colonization and he may be a fan of bringing the troops out of Iraq and he may be all for cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions - all admirable qualities - but to me, all I see is one of Enid Blyton’s characters harping on about the land above the Faraway Tree and exploding toffees.