`  == ``alternative, not just an echo`` ==  In the section ``Leader of the opposition`` Rudd is quoted as stating that he would be ``alternative, not just an echo`` of the Howard government. However, both Howard and Rudd are centrists, there is very little to differentiate between their policies. Both are economic liberals, meaning their economic policies are virtually identical - case in point Rudd supported the Gunns pulp mill - the major difference being WorkChoices, and the promise to ``scrap`` WorkChoices would not be a reversion to the previous IR laws, but a renaming and restoration of some previously protected rights. The economic policies are virtually interchangeable.  On climate change, tied into economics, Howard pledged to ratify the new climate change treaty, which will have the same practical outcome as Rudd's promise to ratify Kyoto.  The list continues, including Rudd's support for the detention of Dr Haneef, Afghanistan, and now, with his repeal of the promise to include Aboriginals in the preamble to the Constitution, that too, joins the list.  As such, the article should reflect the that that the 2007 Australian Federal Elections were between two centrist parties with virtually no difference in policy, due to both parties emulating each other.   `