How radical will Kevin Rudd turn out to be?

Australia's new Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may have made some faux pas in the run-up to the election, but that didn't stop him from sweeping to victory. The question now is: what next?

After a video revealing him nibbling his own ear wax and the revelation that he had paid a drunken visit to a strip club, some thought Kevin Rudd's chances of becoming prime minister "had been scuppered", says Richard Shears in the Daily Mail.

But this being Australia, which "revels in its laddish behaviour", the opposite proved true. Rudd, 50, a Mandarin-speaking former diplomat, won a sweeping general election victory for his Labour party at the weekend.

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