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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd - Click to view image in its original context
Kevin Rudd
Type: Person
Name: Kevin Rudd
Title: Prime Minister (elected 24 NOV 07)
Organization: Government of Australia
Date of Birth: 21/09/1957
Place of Birth: Nambour, Qld.
Nationality: Australia
Fact Sheet: Biography for Kevin Rudd
First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 5 Documents
Christopher Pyne - Click to view image in its original context
Christopher Pyne
Rudd to pledge $42.8m to school chaplain program
KEVIN RUDD is expected to use an address to the Australian Christian Lobby today to announce continued funding for chaplains in schools.The decision comes after weeks of Coalition pressure to guarantee an extension of the program, controversially introduced ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 6 hours ago]
First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
United Nations - Click to view 360-page
United Nations
Rudd's 'bungles' kill chance of UN seat
Former diplomat and Indonesia expert Bruce Haigh says Australia has no chance of scoring a UN Security Council seat thanks to Kevin Rudd's diplomatic bungling.Mr Haigh's delivered a scathing assessment saying the PM's ambition outweighs his ability and ... [Sky News Australia - 7 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 5 Documents
Irene Khan - Click to view image in its original context
Irene Khan
Australian ministers criticised over Oceanic Viking detentions
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has repeatedly pledged his government won't imprison women and children asylum seekers, distancing himself from the approach of his predecessor, John Howard, but his ministers are having to defend their position, because ... [ABC Radio Australia - 9 hours ago]
First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Ian Macfarlane - Click to view image in its original context
Ian Macfarlane
Australia points to major heatwave in carbon fight
Australia’s government demanded yesterday that conservative rivals stop opposing carbon trade laws, citing a heatwave searing the country’s biggest cities as evidence of Australia’s vulnerability to climate change.With Australia on bushfire alert, the ... [Taipei Times Online - 16 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Nick Minchin - Click to view image in its original context
Nick Minchin
Sceptics defy climate bill
CLIMATE change sceptics united in their most public show of defiance yesterday as the Rudd Government flagged extra sitting days so the Senate could pass its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.Senior Liberal Senator Nick Minchin, who is vehemently opposed ... [Brisbane Courier-Mail - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 4 Documents
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John Howard
Rudd has little to fear from polls
NOTHING happened for Labor in Newspoll. Well, that’s not strictly true because Kevin Rudd’s job approval rating continued its slow trend decline this week.But his personal loss is of no political consequence because the voters who soured on the Prime ... [The Australian - 11 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)
Sharman Stone - Click to view 360-page
Sharman Stone
Australian opposition party says Rudd should fix domestic policy first.
The Australian opposition says the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should fix his domestic policy first rather than seek to put Australia’s immigration problems on regional neighbours.The opposition immigration spokesperson, Sharman Stone, was commenting after ... [Radio New Zealand International - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)
Australia: Asylum Seekers test tough but humane approach
It appears that the Australia’s three-way stand-off with Sri Lankan asylum seekers onboard the Oceanic Viking and Indonesia may be over. It began: on October 16 when a boatload of 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers, all ethnic Tamils, were rescued from their ... [Global Voices Online - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 3 Documents
Women and children detained behind bars in Indonesia
Refugee advocates say Indonesia is holding women and children from the Oceanic Viking behind bars so Australia can't renege on its promise to resettle the group promptly.Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said this week the women and children among the 78 Sri ... [WA Today.com.au - 14 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents
Australian Prime Minister Calls for Greater Cooperation with India
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for more investment and trade with India during a visit to the Indian capital. Rudd has also promised that attacks on Indian students in Australia will not be tolerated. ... [VOA News - 11/19/2009]
Entities: India, Kevin Rudd, Tolerance
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 Documents
Dogged crusader
Illustration: John SpoonerSenator Nick Xenophon wants an inquiry into the Church of Scientology and, based on his record, he just may get it.THERE are a couple of things to know about Nick Xenophon. The first is that the independent senator from Adelaide ... [The Age - 13 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 Documents
Opposition claims govt infrastructure spending 'lazy'
CD report on the Australian economy highlights the federal government's 'lazy approach' to infrastructure spending, opposition frontbencher Scott Morrison says.The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) latest Economic Outlook ... [Business Spectator - 22 hours ago]

Quotes

Mr Rudd warned there was a danger "that some assume … this copenhagen agreement should somehow drift off into a statement of anodyne political principles"
Spectrum aside, climate change to get specific [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/19/2009]
...change bill threatened to boil over today, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likening opposition climate sceptics of adopting a Medieval mentality. "it is as if we are back into the trial of galileo or something and they are simply arguing somehow that the science is fiction and that they alone, in their own prejudiced universe" Rudd told parliament, as his Labor government continued to struggle to secure the opposition votes it requires to pass its proposed cap-and-trade le...
Australia's climate bill row heats up [Computing.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

More Content

All (5100) | News (4819) | Reports (0) | Blogs (265) | Audio/Video (14) | Fact Sheets (2)
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Public service could try harder, Rudd says [Canberra Times - 1 hour ago]
Christian Lobby warns Rudd over civil unions [Canberra Times - 1 hour ago]
Amnesty International Chief Blasts Australia's ... [Digital Chosun - 2 hours ago]
Standard & Poor’s pulls back in Australia [Financial Chronicle - 2 hours ago]
Special deal revealed: It's bars not razor wire [The Australian - 5 hours ago]
Decision shaping up as one for the purists [The Australian - 5 hours ago]
Struggle between a church and the state [Sydney Morning Herald - 6 hours ago]
Rudd to pledge $42.8m to school chaplain program [Sydney Morning Herald - 6 hours ago]
UK to follow Australian apology for ‘Lost Innoc... [The Observers - 6 hours ago]
Rudd's 'bungles' kill chance of UN seat [Sky News Australia - 7 hours ago]
Australia On Target To Meet 20% Energy Demand F... [eGov Monitor - 8 hours ago]
Australian ministers criticised over Oceanic Vi... [ABC Radio Australia - 9 hours ago]
Rudd may call election over carbon trading prog... [Computing.co.uk - 9 hours ago]
Labor MP slates Rudd's asylum solution [The Australian - 10 hours ago]
Rudd has little to fear from polls [The Australian - 11 hours ago]
Indonesia suspends licence to destroy rainforest [Greenpeace International - 12 hours ago]
Greenpeace case adjourned [Greenpeace International - 12 hours ago]
With luck, Rudd will overcome his NSW phobia [The Age - 12 hours ago]
Goodwill hunting: Obama treads delicately with ... [The Age - 12 hours ago]
A lifeline on the streets [The Age - 12 hours ago]
School chaplains to stay [The Age - 12 hours ago]
Scientology's dark secrets [The Age - 12 hours ago]
The burden of being Rudd [The Age - 12 hours ago]
Huge tests ahead for Rudd [The Age - 12 hours ago]
Rudd to give $42.8m for school chaplains [NEWS.com.au - 12 hours ago]
Rudd to extend school chaplaincy to 2011 (AAP) [Yahoo! News Australia - 12 hours ago]
Government goes beyond crisis management [The Age - 13 hours ago]
Dogged crusader [The Age - 13 hours ago]
Come Sunday, it'll be all right [The Age - 13 hours ago]
Bigots drive gay marriage ban [The Age - 13 hours ago]
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Blogs

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AUSTRALIANS AFRAID [Tim Blair - 8 hours ago]
Our Prime Minister is an idiot, as Clive Hamilton reports: Kevin Rudd says the heatwave is attributable to global warming. Good that… ...
Pope Rudd claims Galileo was no sceptic [Andrew Bolt - 13 hours ago]
Australian Climate Madness asks how Kevin Rudd could be so stupid as… ...
Wong saves half a million houses in a week [Andrew Bolt - 13 hours ago]
Kevin Rudd on November 7 predicts property losses by 2100, thanks to unchecked global warming: Storm surges and rising sea levels – ...
We have opted for a complex and painful ETS [Current Account - 15 hours ago]
AUSTRALIA’S great greenhouse contradiction has turned a simple market-based system for reducing carbon emissions into a confusion of backroom political deals pockmarked ...
On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics [Larvatus Prodeo - 19 hours ago]
A while back I wrote – in rather skeptical vein – about Tim Soutphommasane’s claim that progressives should be reclaiming patriotism. Guy Rundle has now reviewed ...
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Audio/Video

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Rudd: Climate change is real [CNN International - YouTube - 8 hours ago]
Rudd: Climate change is real [CNN.com - Video - 9 hours ago]
Prime Minister says sorry [News On ABC - YouTube - 11/17/2009]
Australia apologises for mistreating migrant ch... [ITN News - YouTube - 11/16/2009]
Apology for Kids Shipped From UK to Australia [Associated Press - YouTube - 11/16/2009]
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