For some reason - probably searching for bad news from my employers became so ingrained that I can't help glancing through the papers - I read a comparison of Rudd Abbot the other day. It was in another language because I remember the description of 24 hour Rudd seemed odd, then remembered you speaking of Rudd bot. From that first article I came away unsure which one you had liked (the bot memory didn't help), and it was only today when I read right wing Abbott would win that I was sure you were for the Chinese speaking hard working round faced one (IIRC you also liked Hermione, so that complicated things further).

It sucks. But we never really heard of that good stretch in OZ (did hear about exemplary NZ a few times); last time we noticed it was also a horrid jowly bad leader. So cudos in retrospect.