Abbott seizes on Rudd's uranium admission

Tony Abbott has seized on Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd's admission that he was kept in the dark about Julia Gillard's about turn on selling uranium to India.

"The foreign minister was in India and the prime minister decides that we are going to resume a willingness to sell uranium to India," the opposition leader told the Nine Network.

"You'd think this was almost a deliberate snub to Kevin Rudd as well as crook way to run government."

Mr Abbott said it was further evidence of a divided government and the animosity between Ms Gillard and the man she ousted as prime minister.

Mr Rudd on Thursday night told ABC TV he had not been consulted and did not expect to be consulted by Ms Gillard about her decision to seek to reverse Labor's policy on uranium at its conference next month.

"In terms of when the prime minister communicated with the Indian government, the truthful question is no I was not consulted," Mr Rudd said.

"But remember, the prime minister has also said this very clearly that she is taking this to the national conference as her own personal initiative.

"Under those circumstances it would be unrealistic to be consulted on every matter."