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  Australian Labor Party : Home Page
The Rudd Government's modern workplace relations system and national employment standards will ensure all employees are protected by a safety net of minimum conditions that can’t be stripped away.
Kevin Rudd's proposal for Australia in the 2020 is to create universal, high quality, affordable Parent and Child Centres for all 0-5 year old children to provide real, practical assistance to working families.
Kevin says: "Let us be the generation that seizes the opportunities of today to invest in the Australia of tomorrow.
www.alp.org.au   (1605 words)

  
  Kevin Rudd » Scribe Publications
Kevin Rudd emerged after a period of prolonged instability and internal strife within the federal ALP to establish himself as a popular leader who could unify his party and mount a real challenge to John Howard.
Kevin Rudd: an unauthorised political biography explores the events that have made this ambitious, self-reliant man, and the influences that have shaped his vision for the future of Australia.
Kevin Rudd: an unauthorised political biography is a comprehensive, spin-free examination of the making of this key player in Australian political life.
scribepublications.com.au /book/kevinrudd   (623 words)

  
 Australian Labor Party : Kevin Rudd - Member for Griffith
Kevin Michael Rudd was sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia on December 3 2007, after he led the Australian Labor Party to an election win on November 24.
Mr Rudd was born in the country town of Nambour in Queensland in 1957, the son of a share farmer and a nurse.
During this period Mr Rudd, a Mandarin speaker, was also appointed by Prime Minister Keating and the State Premiers to chair an inter-government committee to develop a National Asian Language and Studies Strategy for Australian schools.
www.alp.org.au /people/qld/rudd_kevin.php   (788 words)

  
  Kevin Rudd » Scribe Publications
Kevin Rudd emerged after a period of prolonged instability and internal strife within the federal ALP to establish himself as a popular leader who could unify his party and mount a real challenge to John Howard.
Kevin Rudd: an unauthorised political biography explores the events that have made this ambitious, self-reliant man, and the influences that have shaped his vision for the future of Australia.
Kevin Rudd: an unauthorised political biography is a comprehensive, spin-free examination of the making of this key player in Australian political life.
www.scribepublications.com.au /book/kevinrudd   (623 words)

  
  Kevin Rudd - Encyclopedia Dramatica
Kevin Rudd, or Ruddkipz, is the leader of the Labour party and now, the Australian Prime Minister.
Kevin Rudd also wants to make faster internets for Australia, because he knows that Australians need a prime minister with l337 CS skillz.
On the Aussie TV show "Rove Live," Kevin Rudd was asked: "Who would you turn gay for?" In other words, "who do you think is the sexiest man alive?" Rudd stammered and could not answer this simple question, as the possibilities swirled in his mind.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /Kevin_Rudd   (883 words)

  
  Kevin Rudd - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957), Australian politician, has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the Division of Griffith, Queensland.
Rudd was born in Nambour, Queensland, and graduated with an arts degree with the University of Queensland.
In 1988 Rudd was appointed Chief of Staff to the Labor Opposition Leader in Queensland, Wayne Goss, a position he held until 1991, when Goss, by now Premier, appointed him Director-General of the Cabinet Office.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kevin_Rudd   (576 words)

  
  titusonenine » Blog Archive » Kevin Rudd: Bonhoeffer and ‘the political orchestration of organised ...
Kevin Rudd goes on to argue that the term ‘family values’ is one of the most debased terms in Australian political life, that the argument, ‘Vote for me, I’m a Christian’; is repugnant, and that Christian faith means nothing if it’s not about social action.
Kevin Rudd: Dietrich Bonhoeffer had guts, he was principled, and those principles were put to the test during probably one of the most awful periods of the century, namely Germany in the 1930s.
Kevin Rudd: I think what Bonhoeffer does for people who are Christians in politics in every age and in every culture, is to say this: that Christian ethics are a dead letter unless they are translated into real concrete social action in pursuit of social justice.
titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=17089   (839 words)

  
  Kevin Rudd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957), Australian politician, is the leader of the Australian Labor Party, and Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Federal Parliament.
Rudd is a supporter of the road map for peace and defended Israel's right to self-defence during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, condemning Hezbollah and Hamas for "violating" Israeli territory.
Rudd is critical of economist Friedrich Hayek, although he describes himself as "basically a conservative when it comes to questions of public financial management", pointing to his slashing of public service jobs as a governmental advisor which led to the nickname of "Dr. Death".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Rudd   (1175 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957), is the leader of the federal Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament.
Rudd was influential in both promoting a policy of developing an Asian languages and cultures program which was unanimously accepted by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in 1992 and later chaired a high level Working Group which provided the foundation of the strategy in its report, which is frequently cited as "the Rudd Report".
Rudd is a supporter of the road map for peace and defended Israel's right to self-defence during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, condemning Hezbollah and Hamas for "violating" Israeli territory.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kevin_Rudd   (1756 words)

  
 Al Jazeera English - News - Profile: Kevin Rudd
Rudd's fresh-faced appearance meant he was referred to as "Harry Potter" by some within his own party, but he rated himself "a very determined bastard" ready to take on Australia's second-longest serving prime minister.
Rudd endured a tough childhood, forced to temporarily sleep in a car aged 11 when his family was evicted from their Queensland farm following his father's death in a road accident.
Rudd has remained unflustered in the face of a series of attacks on his credibility, including questions about his wife's business and his handling of sex abuse claims at a juvenile prison when he was a Queensland bureaucrat.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/41991CDB-10F6-4C12-A7CB-42CA5351BD98.htm   (550 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd - Conservapedia
Kevin Rudd is the Prime Minister of Australia, and leader of the federal parliamentary wing of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The ALP won the election on 24 November 2007, and Rudd was soon affirmed as the leader of the parliamentary wing and therefore Prime Minister elect.
Additionally, Rudd made a formal parliamentary apology to the "Stolen Generation", a large group of indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their community in the first half of the 20th century.
www.conservapedia.com /Kevin_Rudd   (647 words)

  
 Interview: Kevin Rudd
RUDD: I think Mr Howard has now taken on responsibility for this problem and I'm prepared to work with him on that because child sexual abuse, the abuse of little ones, is so abhorrent to the entire community and both sides of politics we should be taking the politics out of it.
RUDD: Well we have been doing some work on this together with our friends in the Police Federation and their statement is as you just described it, and that is that they need that extra 700 sworn officers.
RUDD: There have been some indications around the British government that there may be some changes in their future troop deployments, of course under Prime Minister Blair there has already been a downsizing of the British troop deployment.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_2236.asp   (2865 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd - Wikipedia Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas berbahasa Indonesia
Rudd yang fasih berbahasa Mandarin juga pernah terpilih sebagai anggota parlemen pusat pada tahun 1988.
Rudd pernah berkuliah di Universitas Nasional Australia yang terletak di ibukota Australia, Canberra.
Walaupun nama Cinanya (Kèwén 克文) secara dekat menyerupai alih aksara resmi nama barat 'Kevin' dalam bahasa Mandarin (Kǎiwén 凯文), namun nama ini juga merupakan nama Cina yang asli pula.
id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Rudd   (473 words)

  
 Trevor Cook: Kevin Rudd
Rudd's legion of advisers need to convince him that he needs to be more selective in what he does and that goes for his overloaded, wordy and very forgetable speeches too.
KEVIN Rudd's press secretary Lachlan Harris yesterday declined to say whether he had run through Canberra in the nude to fulfil the terms of a bet.
Rudd's energy and enthusiasm for media appearances might help overcome the first of these hurdles and he has a point of policy distinction on Iraq and industrial relations; perhaps also on climate change (Kyoto ratification etc) and maybe the education revolution (though this is still pretty undefined as yet).
trevorcook.typepad.com /weblog/kevin_rudd/index.html   (6882 words)

  
 Shadow Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd, Shadow Foreign Minister: Good to be with you.
Kevin Rudd: Well, what Secretary Powell and the US seems to have said is that he now has grave doubts about the accuracy of the case he put to the United Nations about the claim that Iraq possessed biological weapons laboratories - the so-called mobile trailers.
Kevin Rudd: Well, our argument is that when it comes to the continued operations of al-Qaeda, the main source of their funding comes from either charitable foundations in Saudi Arabia or the money they get from the drug crop.
seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_040404_rudd   (1631 words)

  
 Rudd LIES!
Kevin Rudd said he had been staying at the home of fellow Labor MP Graham Edwards and accepted Mr Edwards’ invitation to tag along to the dinner out of politeness and a sense of obligation.
Kevin Rudd was invited to attending a State Dinner at Government House for the President of the Republic of Korea; instead he sent along (now disgraced) frontbencher Kelvin Thomson, apparently excusing himself by saying he would be working through the night shadow cabinet-making.
So without any evidence at all, Kevin Rudd maligns the reputation of the surgeons who worked to save his father's life, in order to conceal the fact that his father was a drunken driver, that alcohol abuse was the prime contributor to his father's death, and the source of Kevin's hardships as a child.
www.kevinruddlies.com /lies/ruddlies.htm   (4179 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd's political cowardice - Eureka Street
On Sunday afternoon, Kevin Rudd confirmed that his official election campaign will be the vanity exercise, the gutless appeal to a shallow and disaffected electorate, that most of us suspected it would be.
Rudd is clearly convinced that this election is the Coalition’s to lose, and that popular discontent with the government has finally reached critical mass — as it had in 1996, the election that saw Howard defeat Keating.
Rudd had to craft a winning strategy in the electorate that is, not the electorate we would like to see rebuilt.
www.eurekastreet.com.au /article.aspx?aeid=3605   (2616 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd - National - theage.com.au
■ A virgo, Kevin Rudd was born on September 21, 1957, in Queensland.
Rudd graduated as dux of the school in 1974.
Their dislike of each other began in Rudd's first year in Parliament when he defended the Labor Party against criticism by Latham that it lacked policy and was intellectually bereft.
www.theage.com.au /news/national/kevin-rudd/2006/12/02/1164777852646.html   (796 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd: News & Videos about Kevin Rudd - CNN.com
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was accused by a government colleague Thursday of applying a sexist double standard by insisting that a woman lawmaker seek anger management counseling when male politicians' similar behavior has been overlooked.
Australian Prime Minster Kevin Rudd on a one-day visit to the East Timorese capital Dili Friday pledged his nation's continued support in the aftermath of this week's assassination attempts on the prime minister and president.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd introduced a motion in the Australian national parliament Tuesday, apologizing for past mistreatment of the country's Aboriginal population.
topics.cnn.com /topics/kevin_rudd   (1100 words)

  
 Web exclusive: 'Who is Kevin Rudd?' by Tim Soutphommasane | Prospect Magazine December 2007 issue 141
Rudd’s emphasis on the struggles of "working families" resonated with an electorate concerned with the unfairness of the Howard government’s radical WorkChoices industrial relations reforms, and with rising interest rates.
Rudd won national prominence as Labor’s foreign affairs spokesman and through his dogged prosecution of the Australian Wheat Board scandal of 2005-06 (the board offered kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime in return for the Iraqi purchase of wheat exports).
Perhaps Rudd's most critical political manoeuvre, though, was to respond to a late $9bn spending pledge by Howard by casting himself as an economic conservative who could be trusted to avoid reckless spending.
www.prospect-magazine.co.uk /article_details.php?id=9931   (1140 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd – Find related news headlines from Newser
New PM Kevin Rudd said he was "disgusted and appalled." The prosecutor described the sex as consensual "childish experimentation," reports the Australian.
Kevin Rudd will make good on a campaign promise to pull out troops, a move that marks a sharp shift from the polices of his predecessor, John Howard, a key Bush ally.
Kevin Rudd, the Labor Party leader 20 years Howard's junior, has promised to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq and to "shift up a gear" as the Australian economic miracle recedes.
www.newser.com /tag/11836-1.html   (1186 words)

  
 In Search of Kevin Rudd | Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston
Rudd’s political ‘values’, to use the current vernacular, spring from the perceived shabby treatment both his parents suffered from their community and the state, and ‘the bleak charity of the time’ that the Rudds survived on after his father, Bert, died tragically at the relatively young age of 50 after a car accident.
Rudd denied any involvement with the fake dawn service, then when it was revealed that his office indeed was aware of the plans, Rudd blamed his staff and ‘counselled’ them.
Rudd is still right of me as well but Howard is far right of Ghenghis Khan so a drover's dog or house brick would be an improvement and apparently his electorate think so too because he cannot get a preference deal with anyone.
webdiary.com.au /cms/?q=node/2134   (4922 words)

  
 Kevin Rudd News - The New York Times
Kevin Rudd, the leader of the centre-left Labor Party, won a sweeping election victory in November 2007 to become Australia’s 26th Prime Minister.
Rudd was born in September 1957 to a relatively poor farming family in the northeastern state of Queensland.
Rudd nevertheless believes in the central importance of the U.S.-Australia alliance, and that any change in the relationship is likely to be one of emphasis rather than a violent break with the past.
topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/r/kevin_rudd/index.html?inline=nyt-per   (1049 words)

  
 The Prime Minister's Website - About Your PM
Kevin Michael Rudd was sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia on 3 December 2007.
Mr Rudd was born in the country town of Nambour in Queensland in 1957, the son of a share farmer and a nurse.
During this period Mr Rudd, a Mandarin speaker, was also appointed by Prime Minister Keating and the State Premiers to chair an inter- government committee to develop a National Asian Language and Studies Strategy for Australian schools.
www.pm.gov.au /your_pm/index.cfm   (574 words)

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