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 Rudds promise to ratify Kyoto  The list continues including Rudds 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  Australian Federal Elections were between two centrist parties with virtually no difference in policy due to both parties emulating each other