The Greens could have always helped Julia out. Afterall she formed government with their blessing.
Both sides of the house at the time had locked horns, Labor equally staunch in refusing to return to former Howard policy.
Labor needed their own solution because anything else would have been humiliating given they had done away with a policy that was proven.
Rudd the hero for fixing an expensive and deadly problem he was intamately involved in? Hardly, there was an election looming and he needed votes.
