Will be interesting to see if he challenges. Unless his numbers are strong i cant see why he would. He will be criticized by the likes of Gillards ministers and Lathum, but would that be worse than trying to win an unwindable election for the benefit of the faceless men ect.
At this point personaly he would be better of losing a challenge. With Gillard and her idiot ministers driving the vote down and the party so divided even his campaigning skills with honeymoon period surely would not be enough to go close to victory and he would know this.
Maybe the faceless men and Gillards bunch of fools are going to reap what they have sewn and see the political wing of the Union movement smashed.