Watch this, Julia

Kevin Rudd decides to show Julia Gillard how to give a proper Australia Day speech:

For us, this will be no ordinary Australia Day. For we come together, here in our local community and in communities right across Queensland, to honour extraordinary achievements in the face of extraordinary events.

Because these Queensland floods have been extraordinary events. When Mother Nature turns her fury on men and women, it propels us back to the most basic questions of human survival. The elements strip things bare. They break our bodies. They test our souls.

And so dramatically on.