PM Kevin Rudd (R) suspects Tony Abbott lacks the "ticker" to debate him on key policy areas. Source: AAP
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd suspects Tony Abbott lacks the "ticker" to debate him on key policy areas.
Mr Abbott has been "lying" to the Australian people about the state of the economy, his ability to turn back asylum seeker boats and the impact of carbon pricing, Mr Rudd says in his first major television interview since retaking the leadership from Julia Gillard.
"So what I would say to Mr Abbott - you've been doing this for a long time, it's time we had a properly moderated debate ... on his chosen subjects," Mr Rudd said on the ABC's 730 program.
"Mr Abbott, I think it is time you demonstrated to the country you have a bit of ticker on this.
"He's the boxing blue. I'm the glasses-wearing kid in the library.
"Come on, let's have the Australian people form a view about whether his policies actually have substance, whether they actually work, or whether they are just slogans."
On his now-broken pledge never to return to the Labor leadership, Mr Rudd said Ms Gillard had vacated the spot and brought on the caucus ballot.
He said a second reason was the prospect of defeat at the 2013 election.
"The Australian Labor Party and the government was on track towards a catastrophic defeat and I wasn't about to stand idly by and see everything we worked for for the last five or six years go down the gurgler as Mr Abbott set about ripping it apart."
He said he was not motivated by revenge, but taking up the fight to Mr Abbott and coming up with a positive plan for the future.
Mr Rudd said he was working through policy changes but it would be an "orderly process".
He said he wanted to take the time to "think and take the best advice".
Asked whether Labor would be punished for its long leadership turmoil, Mr Rudd said he had faced four Liberal leaders over a period of four years after he took on the Labor leadership.
"In political parties these things happen from time to time," he said.
A spokesman for Mr Abbott told AAP the opposition leader would debate Mr Rudd once the prime minister "ends the uncertainty and names the election date".
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