  Interesting to read the following in urlLink Glen Milne's column in the Australian today. Seems Carmen Lawrence has been giving frank and fearless comments at business conferences and seminars about Labor's confidence with regards to the upcoming election.
Some wise guy took notes at one of Lawrence's gigs and passed them onto the Australian Milne wrote: 'Lawrence's own narrative made it clear that Latham's folksy style, with its emphasis on things like reading to children, is not an act of character but the working out of a disciplined strategy. ' That's what it's always looked like to me. He stopped the bad language as soon as the job required it, and jumped from espousing 'hate' in politics to his 'good things'. 
