Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce says Kevin Rudd should make a run for the Labor leadership before the election. Picture: Kym Smith Source: The Australian
COALITION frontbencher Barnaby Joyce says Kevin Rudd should show some ticker and challenge for the Labor leadership.
"If he was fair dinkum, have the ticker, stand up and say this is ridiculous and get this show back under control," he told reporters in Canberra this morning.
"If he is not just doing that, it is just some fit of pique where he is sulkily going around, trying to throw mud on everybody."
Senator Joyce said if Labor changed leaders, it should choose a new treasurer as well.
"If you are going to change the sheets, change both of them," he said.
John Howard hopes independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor lose their seats at the next election.
"What he is doing is saying here I am, you knifed me, you sacked me, if you want me to come back, I am not going to do it for you," he told reporters.
Opposition Senate leader Eric Abetz said Ms Gillard had been unable to fix policies on which Mr Rudd had stumbled, citing the mining and carbon taxes, border protection, and returning the budget to surplus.
"Julia Gillard has not been able to make a silk purse out of those sows' ears," he said.
Earlier former prime minister John Howard believes Kevin Rudd will make a move for the Labor leadership before the September 14 election.
While Mr Rudd has consistently denied reports he would challenge Julia Gillard, Mr Howard told 60 Minutes last night that he believed Mr Rudd would make a comeback.
"I don't think he's ever given up on the idea of coming back and that's human nature and understandable," Mr Howard said.
"In the end, leadership is determined by the laws of arithmetic and even the most popular leaders can be removed if people think they'll do better under another one."
Mr Howard said Tony Abbott's leadership of the Liberal Party was stable and ruled out a run by Malcolm Turnbull for the position.
"I don't believe for a moment the Liberal Party will be led at the next election by anyone other than Tony Abbott," he said.
"I'm an undisguised supporter of Tony Abbott. He got Kevin Rudd's scalp. The real story of the last three years is that if anyone other than Tony Abbott had been leading the Liberal Party, Kevin Rudd would have remained leader of the Labor Party and would have won the last election, in my opinion, with a clear majority."
Mr Howard also said independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor "don't deserve" to be re-elected because their electorates support the opposition.
- with wires
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