Premier-elect gets down to work
Australian Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd took advice on how to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and fielded phone calls from President Bush and other world leaders the day after a sweeping election victory.
The victory for Rudd’s Labor Party swings Australia toward the left after almost 12 years of conservative rule and puts it at odds with key ally Washington on two crucial policy issues -- Iraq and global warming.
Rudd declined to give details of his conversation with Bush.
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