Tag: Kevin Rudd

OPINION: "We live in a deeply unsettled world, where once again the great questions of war and peace rumble across the international headlines, casually, almost as a matter of routine, as if we have become inoculated to their actual meaning," says former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, arguing there are ...

Emails suggest former Australian PM was seeking council from senior US political powerbroker around the same time as his bid for the position of United Nations general secretary.

Former PM Kevin Rudd says public servants would have been given more time to roll out the home insulation scheme had they asked.

Kevin Rudd will breach a century-old tradition of cabinet secrecy, as his evidence to a home insulation royal commission gets under way.

Former PM Kevin Rudd is to chair the National Apology Foundation, which he has established to honour the 2008 apology to Indigenous Australians.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd denies his plans to tour and debate global affairs mean he's angling for a tilt at the United Nations' top job.

Australian leaders have echoed those around the world paying tribute to Nelson Mandela.

Governor-General Quentin Bryce appears to have publicly expressed support for Australia becoming a republic and same-sex marriage being legalised.

Kevin Rudd keeps a low profile on his last day in Parliament.

Tony Abbott has praised former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as an extraordinary person who will continue to serve Australia.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken to twitter to bid farewell and has been both praised and condemned on social media networks.

Former PM Kevin Rudd quits parliament saying he bears no malice.

Former Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is not to be messed with. She has delivered a scathing attack on Kevin Rudd, calling him a "bastard" and asking him to resign from parliament for the sake of the Labor Party.

Labor’s shadow frontbench includes 11 women and six new faces as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seek a new direction for his party.

Labor will need Tanya Plibersek’s skills as a communicator and her popularity with colleagues as it tries to unite after a devastating election loss.

Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard will give candid interviews with author Dr Anne Summers in front of live audiences in Sydney and Melbourne, with both shows selling out.

Shorten indicates he would not run for the Labor leadership if Anthony Albanese wants the top job, in a bid to avoid more disunity and party destabilisation.

A smiling Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has conceded defeat in the Australian federal election but says Labor fought the good fight.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As voters prepare to go to the polls, Tony Abbott’s Liberal-National coalition looks set to defeat Kevin Rudd’s Labor government.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the federal election looms, we look at the top five quotes that have shaped the political careers of the two leaders who will go head to head in a bid to lead the nation: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his challenger Tony Abbott.

ELECTION13 | Australian political leaders have made a video pitch to contestants in this year's Big Brother Australia house in the lead-up to Saturday's federal election.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has seized on Tony Abbott's baddies versus baddies comment on Syria to question his credentials to represent Australia internationally.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Labor entered the election campaign as the underdog and remains so with less than a week until polling day.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Make your vote count in the 2013 Federal Election by ensuring you correctly complete ballot papers for the House of Representatives and the Senate.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Heading into the final week of the election campaign, Labor and the coalition have kept the focus on the economy and spending priorities.

New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell has been involved in a tense altercation with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the campaign trail today over Labor's plans to move a major naval base from Sydney to Brisbane.

OPINION | This election, make sure you cast your vote on the basis of a party’s policies, not their personalities, argues CHLOE WESTLEY.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has likened the ever worsening civil war in Syria to past atrocities, warning the world would be judged for inaction.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | With conscience issues likely to come to parliament in the coming term, Bob Katter and Clive Palmer have given their members some flexibility.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called the alleged chemical attack on civilians in Damascus "repugnant" as France pledges armed intervention in the Syrian civil war.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | A Guardian Lonergan poll suggests the coalition could pick up Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Brisbane seat of Griffith.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Right back from when he danced with Kerri-Anne Kennerley on morning TV back on the campaign trail in April 2007, resurrected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has never stopped at an attempt to show he’s a ‘hip’ politician. KIEL EGGING picks out five of K-Rudd’s best attempts ...

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The second leaders’ forum between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott has put further spark into the policy costings debate.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have made their YouTube music debut alongside a host of Australian politicians, starring in Canberra band Super Best Friends clip for their latest single ‘Round and Round’.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor is focused on its plans for Australia’s future rather than opinion polls.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Labor has pounced on the coalition’s delayed policy costings and spooked that $70 billion of cuts could spark a recession.

ELECTION13 | Recent polling suggests that former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will be defeated in the electorate of Forde at the federal election on 7 September.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | American pop star Katy Perry blindsided Opposition Tony Abbott on Australian radio yesterday with questions regarding his policy on gay marriage.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 2013 | Labor and the coalition say there won’t be any minority government deals after the Australian federal election.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | In his third gaffe in as many days, Opposition Leader and Prime Ministerial hopeful Tony Abbott has described gay marriage as “the fashion of the moment” while defending his stance on the issue.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he wasn’t told he couldn’t use notes in the leaders’ debate although Tony Abbott says they weren’t worth reading.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | As the 2013 election looms we take an in-depth look at the two leaders going head to head, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The prime minister and opposition leader have had a dead-heat in the first leaders’ debate of the election campaign.

Tony Abbott should confirm a coalition conscience vote on same-sex marriage or risk inner-city seats, gay rights group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) says, as Kevin Rudd commits to introducing same-sex marriage legislation.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | The Opposition have called on the Rudd government to withdraw advertisements regarding reforms to their asylum seeker policy, which were paid for with public funds.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will face off on Sunday night in the first debate of the federal election campaign.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie is making a political comeback, running for Labor in the Brisbane seat of Forde in the federal election.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is being thin-skinned and needs to accept media outlets won't always back him or Labor, the opposition says.

Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has claimed that having a beer with embattled MP Craig Thomson was "no big deal", with senior political figures accusing him of bad judgement.

Papua New Guinea wasn't seeking economic gain when it agreed to open a processing centre for asylum seekers trying to get into Australia, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says.