Insiders

Philip Ruddock - Attorney General (20/5/2007) (2007x14)

Air date: May 20, 2007

It has been another weird week in politics. The Government was out and about selling a Budget that by and large, was well received - and the latest research put consumer confidence at its highest in 32 years. A neat juxtoposition with unemployment - the lowest in 32 years. At the same time, Kevin Rudd and Labor were under sustained attack from big business over its industrial relations policy. And yet the polls - all of them - either showed Labor maintaining its huge lead over the Coalition or building on it.