Kevin Rudd return sees Labor set to win marginal Liberal seats LABOR is increasingly confident of winning marginal Liberal seats in Queensland and beyond, with a restored Kevin Rudd boosting the party's electoral prospects. ALP campaign chief George Wright confirmed Labor had shifted campaign resources into Labor seats previously thought hopeless, as well as into Liberal-held seats it now believed to be contestable. Labor sources suggested these seats included Brisbane, Bonner, Forde, Dawson and Herbert in Queensland, and Macquarie and Bennelong, John Howard's old seat, in NSW. Supermum to keep Rudd on even keel "We have got a leader who is keen to be out talking directly to the voters about issues of importance to them," Mr Wright said. The other side don't - all they have put forward to date is cartoons, old-style negative political ads and three-word slogans. "The change to Kevin Rudd has changed politics," Mr Wright said. Hot pink message to woo TV voters It is a tough prospect even in Queensland, where Mr Rudd must hold all the seats Julia Gillard helped secure in 2010, as well as winning new Liberal seats, if he is to have any hope of victory. While the most marginal Liberal-held seat in Australia is Boothby in South Australia, Coalition sources said their polling suggested it was now more tightly under Liberal control. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd working from the deck of his Norman Park home with his dog Abby. Picture: Mark Calleja Source: The Sunday Telegraph Yesterday Mr Rudd was running the country from the veranda of his Brisbane home with his faithful dog Abby at his feet, as former prime minister Julia Gillard left The Lodge for the last time. As Ms Gillard and her partner Tim Mathieson left The Lodge shortly before 8am, Mr Rudd was returning from his first overseas visit to Indonesia. Mr Rudd and his wife Therese Rein are expected to use the Lodge and Kirribilli House only when in Canberra or Sydney, and continue to live full-time in their riverside house in Brisbane. ALP warns: no papers, no asylum