THE kitchen cabinet may have ended alongside Kevin Rudd's prime ministerial career, but until the fun police arrived yesterday morning, it lived on cheekily in a small corner of his new stamping ground, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Thanks to some sharp eyes in Liberal senator Russell Trood's office, its last vestige was uncovered in a link on the DFAT website. All you had to do was scroll down to regional organisations and click on the link "Asia-Pacific: a community for the 21st century" and presto, you were delivered to a kitchen cabinet design website. The link has since been removed, which is a pity as some of the information worked at a metaphorical level. To wit, "So you've decided that new kitchen cabinets are in order. Now the question remains: Do you go the slow and more expensive route with custom cabinets or opt for the quicker and less costly alternative with prefabricated cabinets?"