One former resident with a few reasons to return

By Chris Johnson
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:58pm, first published March 9 2013 - 3:00am

Some former prime ministers don't have a lot of nice things to say about Canberra, but Kevin Rudd is not one of them. While one of his Labor predecessors, Paul Keating, seems happy to grasp any opportunity to bag the nation's capital, and former Liberal prime minister John Howard wouldn't even live here, Mr Rudd insists that for him the city has special meaning.

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