Even if Kevin Rudd's departure is overdue, Australia should have used him better

The former prime minister was berated by Trump on live television in October

To Kevin Rudd’s many critics, he should have quit as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States long before now.

According to them, it should and could have been on the morning after Donald Trump’s re-election when Rudd, inexplicably, chose to release a statement drawing attention to the historical criticisms he had made of the US President while in hi…