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May 25, 2007
I saw the full Rudd interview on Sky News yesterday afternoon against the backdrop of government decay. Rudd handled himself well video He came across as a human being in difficult situation dealing with it as best as he could. Mistakes were made he said but they were rectified. He acknowledged that the situation with his wife's businesses and him trying to become PM was a difficult one for him.
Rocco Fazzari
Therese Rein's business --Ingeus -------takes unemployable people and makes them employable, and it does it on government contracts. So if Rudd were to become prime minister, then this would present an acute conflict of interest. So should Rein sell her life's work for his ambition?
Rudd's response was that this was:
...It's a tough call on a marriage. I am proud of my wife. She has built up her business from scratch. This is the age of professional women who run their own companies, who run their own lives, who aren't simply appendages of middle-aged men. I love my wife dearly.It is a very hard decision to say to someone prior to an election – and we don't know who is going to win the election – offload the businesed
Rudd presents him and his wife as a modern marriage--the partners live in "two different spheres" and had "separate lives" as far as their careers were concerned--- facing a contemporary dilemma. It is one for which they have no ready answer and needed to take advice. You cannot do better than that can you? So different from a Mark Latham blowing his fuse.
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As no-one has commented on this I would have to say.
This is Rudd after the election doing the laundry.