Michelle Grattan,(political editor of The Age newspaper) on the resurrection of former PM Kevin Rudd who was replaced in a June 2010 coup by presenbt PM Julia Gillard: "Despite the assistance the Age/Nielsen poll gave Gillard, and her own feisty performance in Parliament, the Rudd forces expect the leadership to come to a crunch by mid-year. No one is clear about when or how: the theory is that it is a brittle situation that at some point will explode with a bang.



