I haven’t followed him either but I’d say pulling out of Iraq before the job is done is one indication
The thing is, Rudd isn’t pulling out of Iraq - at least, he isn’t as long as he doesn’t change his policy once elected.
We have about 1500 troops in theatre. He intends to pull about 500 of them out, leaving 1000 or so in.
He has spun this for the anti-war crowd in Australia to win their votes. I think a lot of them are going to be disappointed, when they find out what he’s actually doing.
And he’s probably going to do it fairly gradually - in actual fact, at about the same speed, the Howard government would have done it. As the situation in Iraq improved, they would have brought these troops home too.
The difference with Rudd is that he’d do it regardless of whether conditions had improved or not. And that is a big difference in theory - but if conditions have improved, it’s not much different in practice.