Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull mark defeat of 'Murdoch's man' Trump

Turnbull says Joe Biden's victory means the US will again take a leading role on climate change and Australia must get with the program

Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have a history: an uneasy collaboration on climate policy before the Liberal party grabbed that prospect out of Turnbull's hands in 2009, then, years later, a significant falling out about Rudd's desire to run the United Nations.

More recently there's been a rapprochement between the two around the campaign for a royal commission that Rudd is spearheading to draw attention to the oversized influence of Rupert Murdoch in both global and local politics courtesy of the market dominance of his media properties - influence the former Labor prime minister characterises as a cancer".