There's no point him mounting a leadership challenge that he's going to lose. He has no choice but to wait until Howard decides to go.
I would definitely see us selling uranium to China before we'd count on selling it to India.
My read on it would be, yes, (Howard) is paving the way for a possible change of policy. Whether he does or not depends on how people react to it.
Australia's trying to tread a tightrope between our various trading interests and our strategic alliances.
I see a reshuffle as necessary to rejuvenate the cabinet going into another term. The fact that (Howard's) reshuffling his team shows he intends to hang around until the next election.
