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February 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says federal Labor stands to lose at least 30 seats at the next election unless the party reinstates him as leader.
The Queenslander also praised senior cabinet minister Anthony Albanese’s emotional backing, describing it as “above politics”.
While Prime Minister Julia Gillard is widely tipped to emerge victorious when a caucus ballot is held on Monday morning, Mr Rudd says only his leadership can help Labor win back those who voted for it in 2007.
In a Fairfax newspaper column published on Sunday, the former prime minister said Labor would lose power in a landslide at the next election if it stayed with Ms Gillard.
“Without a change, Labor stands to lose 30 or more seats at the next election,” Mr Rudd said.
“No simple defeat. That would set us back a generation.”
Under that scenario, Labor would be left with fewer than 42 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, putting it in an even worse position that its defeats in 1975 and 1996.
Mr Rudd also praised Mr Albanese for tearfully declaring his support on Saturday.
“Albo’s emotional reaction has moved us all,” Mr Rudd said.
“He has risen above the politics of the day, the week, the year.”
In the rival News Ltd Sunday papers, Mr Rudd’s former press secretary Lachlan Harris has accused Ms Gillard’s supporters of setting out to destroy his former boss with “extremely nasty” character attacks.
“In the past week, the federal Labor Party has introduced a new strategy into leadership challenges, a public, pre-emptive, on-the-record, neo-nuclear strategy,” he said.
“What is so different, and so radically dangerous about this strategy is that it turns the always risky process of leadership battles into a brutal zero-sum game.”
Mr Rudd said he only found out Mr Swan had changed his position after Julia Gillard had launched her challenge when he simply said: “Oh, I’m backing change.”
“That was it,” Mr Rudd said. “No prior warning, no nothing.”
On Wednesday, when Mr Rudd resigned as foreign minister, Mr Swan issued a statement that savaged his record as prime minister.
“The party has given Kevin Rudd all the opportunities in the world and he wasted them with his dysfunctional decision-making and his deeply demeaning attitude towards other people including our caucus colleagues,” Mr Swan said in the statement.
Mr Rudd also attacked former health minister Nicola Roxon who on Friday said the former prime minister’s approach to government was often “ludicrous”.
Ms Roxon said at one point he suggested taking over the entire health system with four days notice and without any materials for cabinet or any legal advice.
But on Sunday, Mr Rudd said that just after he was toppled by Ms Gillard in June 2010, Ms Roxon came up to him and his wife Therese Rein at Canberra airport.
According to Mr Rudd she said at the time: “A lot of people said they couldn’t work with Kevin, that’s what they are saying now, but that has never been my experience.”
Mr Rudd claimed Ms Roxon, now the attorney-general, had said Mr Rudd had always supported her through the health reform process.
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