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The new politics

In the UK, conservative policies are like the nanny manifesto, in the USA Obama sounds like a modern Roosevelt. Here, Kevin Rudd is pragmatic and super cautious, and Abbott says the Liberals shouldn't have relied so much on magic pudding economics. Whither politics? Reporter Andrew West.

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