** FILE ** Kevin Rudd, leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives, speaks at The Brookings Institution in Washington in this April 20, 2007, file photo. A portrait of Robert Brookings is seen at right. Australia's opposition leader Kevin Rudd said he expected his lead in opinions polls will suffer after revelations in newspapers Sunday August 19, 2007, of his drunken night in a New York strip club. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, FILE)