Kabuki MPs

KEVIN (Tricky) Rudd’s plan to revive the Labor Party features his own brand of community involvement and local leadership – a response to national demand for a new political movement.

Labor’s foreign affairs spokesman and the frontbencher seen as Kim Beazley’s most likely successor, has attacked “kabuki” MPs who become a mere ceremonial presence in their electorates.

Kevin, you have a point but try and find an Australian word and stop trying to impressing us with your knowledge of Japanese art and drama. Remember Kim Beasley’s prolixity.