don't worry dust - even howard's former chief of staff has given rudd 8 / 10 for the first year............
"GRAHAME MORRIS, FORMER HOWARD CHIEF OF STAFF: After 12 months. um, you know, you'd sort of give him an 8 out of 10, I would have thought
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: If anyone knows how difficult the first 12 months of a new government can be, Grahame Morris does. He was John Howard's chief of staff in the first turbulent year of the Howard administration.
GRAHAME MORRIS: It was a mixture of great and good and ugly, I think the first year of the Howard Government. Whereas I think this one - this one's been a bit more steady. They've been less sort of accident prone"
