Mr Rudd, dumped as leader in 2010, attacked Ms Gillard as treacherous and untrustworthy and insisted she would not be able to win the next election.
“I want to finish the job the Australian people elected me to do,” he said.
"Rightly or wrongly Julia has lost the trust of the Australian people, and starting on Monday I want to start restoring that trust.”
Mr Rudd, who has higher approval ratings than Ms Gillard, targeted his pitch carefully at his fellow party members, saying that the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, was “beatable”.
“If we don't change the Labor Party is going to end up in opposition. We will all end up on the backbench. It is time for a reality check for everybody.” » | Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney | Friday, February 24, 2012
