Australian Greens leader Christine Milne says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has missed a big opportunity to sell Labor achievements through pretending the last three years under Julia Gillard didn't happen.
Senator Milne said this would have been a more interesting election contest had there been a woman leading Labor, a woman leading the Greens and Tony Abbott leading the coalition.
"Kevin Rudd has run a campaign pretending that the last three years didn't exist," she told Sky News.
"It's as if the country went to sleep when he lost the primeministership and woke up again when he got it back. They haven't sold the big reforms that we have achieved in this last period of government."
Senator Milne said that was a mistake as people would look back on this period of government and see bigger reforms than had been achieved for decades.
She said carbon pricing will go down in history as one of the great reforms, as would the work on disability and fairer funding for schools.
"All of those things happened in the period that prime minister Gillard was there and by trying to disown that, they have undermined what they could now be selling the community in terms of all the good things we have achieved," she said.
Senator Milne said clearly Labor had lost confidence in Ms Gillard.
"That in-fighting would have condemned them anyway," she said.
MILNE SEEKS CORRUPTION WATCHDOG
Senator Milne later announced the Greens wanted a corruption watchdog to watch over the federal government after NSW Labor was exposed in recent findings by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
"You'd have to be naive if you thought this only happened at thestate level," she told reporters in Sydney.
"There's very clear resistance from the major parties (to this proposal) because they've had a very comfortable rolling door for along time.
"NSW has really shone a light on this for the whole country."
The NSW ICAC held long-running inquiries and recently handed down four different reports, which found former Labor state ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid had acted corruptly.
The Greens say they already have a bill before parliament tocreate an anti-corruption commission and want to establish it after the election.
