23 July 2013
Subjects: Opinion polls, Kevin Rudd’s ‘PNG solution’, FBT changes
E&OE…
JULIE BISHOP Thank you Brian, delighted to be with you.
BRIAN CARLTON Are you a little more comfortable than you were this time last week?
JULIE BISHOP Well Brian there’s no doubt that Julia Gillard’s Government was deeply unpopular and I think people were prepared to have a second look at Kevin Rudd.
But we do know that his own colleagues thought he was not fit to be Prime Minister last time he was in the job and as far as I can see nothing has changed with Kevin Rudd. The familiar pattern is playing out all over again.
BRIAN CARLTON Oh no something has changed fairly significantly. There was a 15 point jump as soon as he became Prime Minister in terms of who is the preferred Prime Minister. That must still be making you a little bit nervous but not quite as nervous as you were off the back of the last one?