Australian: TWO factors were central to Kevin Rudd’s success in wresting government from John Howard. The most important was a feeling that Mr Howard had gone too far with the Work Choices industrial relations laws. Labor offered a return to the middle ground. The second factor was Mr Rudd, a younger version of Mr Howard who promised to be an economic conservative. Labor embellished its more modern image by promising to make the symbolic gestures that Mr Howard could not. These included saying …