Glenn Milne’s article above tends to argue so. Greens are seen as being uncompromising on their principles compared to ALP & LNP.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/labor-faces-wipeout-20100606-xn7v.html
Today’s Nielsen poll in Fairfax backs up last week’s Newspoll in the Australian with the shift to Greens, Independents & other minor parties.
Australian Independents Movement for Political Integrity 
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/fickle-voters-desert-labor-in-search-of-greener-pastures-20100607-xqu9.html
More on the same subject. It appears the media are so wed to major parties that they cannot fathom voters who desert tehm for minor parties & independents.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/leader-cant-save-his-bacon-and-the-alps/story-e6frg6zo-1225876684603 Brand Rudd may have to suffer if ALP are to win the next election writes Peter van Onselen.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/kevin-rudds-brother-trusts-him-as-a-sibling-but-not-as-a-politician/story-e6frg6nf-1225878646181
PM’s brother calls for more honesty in politics.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/in-blood-sport-honesty-is-bad-policy/story-e6frg6zo-1225878624762
This is an absolute must read
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/lonely-pm-is-not-life-of-the-party/story-e6frg6zo-1225880108217
Janet Albrechtsen weighs into another angle why the PM is on the nose amongst the ALP.
This quote sums it up: Rudd is a bureaucrat who could just as easily prosecute any side of an argument using overblown rhetoric to hide his cold detachment.
This cartoon sums up the PM’s Kitchen Cabinet very nicely.
Whilst Miranda Devine argues that all this amateur psychoanalaysis could work for the PM in the same way it worked for his predecessor. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/teflon-and-the-haters-of-rudd-20100616-ygae.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/crean-must-teach-pm-the-lessons-of-the-hawke-era/story-e6frg6zo-1225880606640
Arthur Sinodinis argues PM Rudd should look at former PM Hawke’s deal making processes on RSPT & ETS.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/greens-leader-bob-brown-hasnt-been-able-to-meet-kevin-rudd-since-april-last-year/story-e6frgczf-1225881639580
Whilst the PM hasn’t met Greens leader Bob Brown since April of last year!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/stubborn-reality-a-lesson-for-labor/story-e6frg6zo-1225882006141
PM a Shakespearean tragedy according to this article.