Okay, so a comparison between the saviour of us sinners and a PM named Kev seems a bit of a stretch, but think about it.

One bore a cross, the other was a bore and ended up very cross.

Both were well known for their love of liquids: one turned water to wine, the other fairly shook sauce bottles.

Both were betrayed by a key member of their inner sanctum whose name began with the letter J.

Of course, Kev is not the messiah, he’s just a very naughty boy (apologies to the Python crew), and there the similarity ends.

Biblical teaching tells us Judas went on to regret his act of treachery, primarily because he realised Jesus was an all-round top bloke, being the messiah and all.

News yesterday suggests Julia’s getting a touch of the guilts now too, but her regret has little to do with Rudd being a bottler of a bloke.

The PM by political assassination who is seeking to become PM by electoral mandate, Ms Gillard’s desire to bring Kev back from the dead is purely about self preservation.

Ms Gillard has two very serious problems in this Federal Election, and if she does not quickly solve them both she may find her term as PM ends up shorter than her predecessor’s.

First, there’s the steady flow of leaks emanating from somewhere within her own ranks.

So far this election the Labor party has leaked more than your average asylum seeker’s boat.

It is fair to say the bile pouring from somewhere high up in Labor has been matched in volume only by that pouring from former leader Mark ‘The Lip’ Latham (his description of Rudd as an “unmanly snake” more proof no-one in Australian politics plays the man better than ‘The Lip’).

Most suspect the leaks are coming from Rudd or, more likely someone who has been close to Rudd, such as a former staffer.