Kevin Rudd pays tribute to Julia Gillard in his speech tonight - intelligence, energy, sense of purpose, tough. She has been a remarkable performer. But there has been too much "negative, personal" politics "all round" and this "must stop." There has been an "erosion of trust." This is the backhander. Why standing? Not in nature to "let an Abbott Government come to power in this country by default." He is "steeped in the power of negative politics" and lacks "a real, positive" plan. Sick of the personal politics. How much of this is directed at Gillard as much as Abbott? Warns the global economy is slowing and the mining boom is over. There are new challenges, including to productivity. Must look at growing the pie as well as distributing it. Offers to work with business, like, he says, he's done before. Another coded attack on the Gillard-Swan legacy - this time on their class war and attacks on business. Rudd offers a plea to young Australians "to please come back" to politics - as in, to Labor. (Rudd is selling sunshine. He offers not a single policy. This is an extremely weak speech for such an important moment. It seemed just thrown together.)