NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT RUDD EMBARRASSED


According to the ABC, would be Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and entrepreneur wife Therese Rein are suffering as a result of her company underpaying 58 employees $70,000. The Lateline report on this was originally titled Rudd embarrassed over wife pay ordeal but has since been changed to Rudd embarrassed over wife's comapny pay row -- the misspelling might indicate the title was hastily changed.

In the interview Rudd shows no concern, none, for the underpaid employees but is plenty concerned about himself:

If you're in my position and you're putting yourself up as the next prime minister of Australia, you don't want these sorts of things to happen. It's as simple as that.

Champion of the working man Rudd refuses to comment on how much his wife's employees are being paid to give up their penalties, overtime and other benefits, saying only that they are being paid "fairly". If BHP had underpaid its employees and payed them a pittance to sacrifice some of their entitlements Rudd and his Labor cronies would be raising quite a stink. Politics, eh?