TERMINATING the carbon tax and forbidding boat people from settling in Australia.
Sounds like Kevin Rudd has joined Tony Abbott in the coalition.
But with two of his biggest policy transformations since resuming power last month, Rudd has actually left the Opposition Leader floundering.
Abbott's plan for the past three years has been to cast the upcoming federal election as a referendum on the carbon tax, which he's promised to legislate into oblivion if the coalition wins government.
The impost paid by big polluters has been a factor in rising household and business electricity costs - and was the foundation of the coalition's promise to reduce living costs.
So Abbott wasn't going to let Rudd's claim he'd terminated it go unchallenged.
"He's not the terminator, he's the exaggerator, he's the fabricator," Abbott said.
Abbott's aim was to ridicule Labor's plan to scrap the controversial fixed carbon price in favour of moving earlier to a market-based emissions trading scheme.
"It is a so-called market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one," he thundered.
Abbott's comments as a whole were taken as a sop to climate change sceptics, including those in his own ranks, and a clumsy attempt to reignite the carbon pricing battleground.
It was an unusual thing to see the party of free markets dismissing a market-based pricing system.
Rudd must have looked to the heavens and thanked a higher power.
"When I see statements like the one that Mr Abbott made the other day, when he described carbon pollution as invisible - and therefore I presume is not real - it is a bit like saying that because air is invisible, it is not real," he gleefully responded.
"I mean, it just doesn't make sense."
The carbon tax is one of three politically corrosive issues Rudd needed to address before calling an election.
ALP internal reform will be dealt with at a special caucus meeting on Monday in the inner Sydney suburb of Balmain, one of the birthplaces of the party.
On Friday, he decisively, and divisively, dealt with asylum seeker boat arrivals.
His decision to strike a deal to resettle asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea and to not allow anyone arriving by boat to live in Australia - even if they are legitimate refugees - was described by Greens Leader Christine Milne as leapfrogging Abbott to the political right.
Abbott seemed uncertain how to respond.
"I welcome it, but it won't work under Kevin Rudd," he said.
As with the carbon tax, Mr Rudd had pulled the rug from under him. The conservative voters Mr Abbott seemed certain to capture at the election, now had appealing options from the government.
Now that he's sorted the carbon tax, ALP reform and asylum seekers, Rudd's clear to call an election with the momentum swinging away from the once unbeatable coalition.
His decision to "terminate" the carbon tax has simultaneously disabled a key weapon in the coalition's election arsenal and looped back to his successful 2007 campaign.
A cursory glance at the body language of coalition MPs suggests Rudd may have them rattled, even though the opposition is still the bookies favourite to win the 2013 poll.
Gone is the swaggering confidence. In its place is a sort of defensiveness that can in part be explained by a new line of reporter questions on the viability of Abbott's own leadership.
Certainly, Rudd has improved Labor's prospects over the past three weeks - and mainly just by being there.
The commanding lead the opposition held over Julia Gillard's regime for more than a year has been stripped to nothing - Labor and the coalition are now neck-and-neck in the current polls.
But a 50-50 split isn't enough for Labor to retain government.
After three years of minority government, it needs seats - and it needs voters to believe Rudd can take the pressure off power prices, fix the boats, grow the economy, support families and make things "better".
In the unlikely event Labor retains all of its current 71 seats, particularly in the key battleground of western Sydney, the party still needs five to govern in its own right.
The coalition needs just one, given the NSW lower house seats of retiring independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott are set to fall to the Nationals.
If the coalition also counts former Labor MP Craig Thomson's seat of Dobell, also in NSW, they could have the election in the bag.
In 2007, Rudd was swept to power with 52.7 per cent of the two-party vote.
A similar result would guarantee him a second - and astonishing - election victory.
