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4 unusual facts about Kevin Rudd


Duncan Lewis

In December 2008 he began serving as National Security Adviser to the Rudd Labor Government.

Edwin Brooks

Victoria was the 2004 Federal Labour Candidate for the Seat of Riverina and her political campaign was launched by Kevin Rudd.

Irving Kristol Award

John Howard, who had a few months before been defeated in the Australian elections, criticized his successor as prime minister, Kevin Rudd, over industrial relations and the Iraq war.

Ivanhoe Primary School

Also in 2010, as a result of the Rudd Governments B.E.R. program, construction of a large school hall commenced.


Braybrook College

The 18-year-old attended Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Youth Summit and Al Gore’s climate-change leadership training, and then started her own climate change organisation.

Bryan Pape

his challenge to the constitutional legality of the Kevin Rudd Government's proposed $7.7 billion tax bonus payments as part of the $42 billion economic stimulus package in the High Court of Australia.

Fiji–Tonga relations

Blaming Australia and New Zealand, the statement said "the Tongans as seen with their presence at the Minerva Reef will be manipulated through offerings of gifts and aid to try and turn up the ante", adding: "As far as Fiji is concerned there is no Mara or Tonga/Fiji situation. It is a Rudd and McCully spreading their wings to save face situation", in reference to Australian and New Zealand Foreign Affairs Ministers Kevin Rudd and Murray McCully.

Hugh Atkin

One popular video posted during the 2007 Australian federal election depicted Kevin Rudd in a mock propaganda film based on material produced by the Communist Party of China during the rule of Mao Zedong.

Kim Carr

After the Labor's victory in the 2007 federal election, the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appointed Carr as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and he was sworn into office by Governor-General Michael Jeffery on 3 December.

Lambton High School

On 29 September 2008, the Federal Cabinet (including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) attended Lambton High School as part of the Australian Government Community Cabinet Program.

Pecan Summer

With his agreement, Cheetham used a recording of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's February 2008 parliamentary apology to the "Stolen Generations" as part of the work.

Peter van Onselen

He also hosts Australian Agenda on Sunday mornings, a joint production between Sky News and The Australian newspaper, interviewing politicians such as Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, John Howard, Barry O'Farrell and Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Scores New York – Gentlemen's club

On August 19, 2007, it was widely reported that the former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, had visited Scores in September 2003 with New York Post editor Col Allan and Labor backbencher Warren Snowdon.


see also

Labour Party leadership election, 2010

The Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010 refers to the leadership election held on 24 June after the Australian Labor leader and sitting Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was challenged by Julia Gillard.

Pecan Summer

The timeline of the opera moves from the Dreamtime; to July 2006, on the banks of the Yarra River near Federation Square in Melbourne; to 1939, on the banks of the Dhungala (Murray River) near the Cummeragunja Mission; to several months later in winter 1939; to Shepparton at an unspecified time; to Federation Square on 13 February 2008, the day of Kevin Rudd's apology.