BARRIE CASSIDY, PRESENTER: Before he joined the panel, our video editor Huw Parkinson has delivered again. He sent Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd to detention at The Breakfast Club to see whether they can sort out their differences.

(Excerpt from film The Breakfast Club shown)

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: Alright, people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay, no less than 1,000 words, describing to me who you think you are. Think about why you're here, ponder the error of your ways.

JULIA GILLARD, FORMER PRIME MINISTER: I just wanted to get on with the job, but I think in Kevin's view in particular, he preferred to do business that way.

KEVIN RUDD, FORMER PRIME MINISTER: That is the most creative reconstruction of a political memory I've ever heard. ...

... Julia Gillard marches in and launches a leadership coup.

JULIA GILLARD: My view was Kevin wasn't in the shape to fight a campaign.

ACTOR: Excuse me, fellas, I think we should write our papers.

KEVIN RUDD: The thing that's most painful through it all is just the active sense of betrayal.

JULIA GILLARD: No, that's rubbish.

KEVIN RUDD: I imagine that's the sort of thing an assassin does say.

ACTOR II: Look, you guys keep up your talking and Vernon's gonna come right in here.

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: What's going on in there? ... You just bought yourself another Saturday. Are you through?

KEVIN RUDD: No.

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: Good. You got another one more right there.

KEVIN RUDD: Betrayal's pretty tough, mate.

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: Another.

JULIA GILLARD: There is nothing that should lead you to expect bastardry of that magnitude.

KEVIN RUDD: Julia was my loyal deputy and I didn't believe she would do that.

ACTRESS: I never did it either.

KEVIN RUDD: Have you looked at where political parties have been at this point of the political cycle?

JULIA GILLARD: We weren't running a government that was functioning the way it should.

KEVIN RUDD: We were in a better position than Howard, we were in a better position than Keating.

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: These kids, when you get old, they're gonna be running the country.

JULIA GILLARD: Kevin was very fragile in the face of criticism.

ACTOR PLAYING PRINCIPAL: What's the matter, are you gonna cry?

KEVIN RUDD: No, perfectly relaxed.

JULIA GILLARD: Clearly there's a hole that needs to be filled by applause and approval.

KEVIN RUDD: I haven't seen Julia's university qualifications as a psychoanalyst.

ACTOR: So conceited. You're so conceited.

JULIA GILLARD: You know, hard things happen. You can still make choices about how you conduct yourself.

(End of excerpt)

BARRIE CASSIDY: I think they need to stay in detention just a little longer, don't you? They're still sorting that one out.