Australian prime minister (PM) Kevin Rudd

I refer to the Crikey article yesterday by Fergus Ryan ("Kevin Rudd thinks he's still relevant to China-Australia relations"). ... of my views on Turnbull's mismanagement of the Australia-China relationship, then I suggest they read the full text of my op-ed in The Weekend Australian on February 24 this year.

Whatever sympathy there is for Turnbull's view behind China's “Great Firewall”, former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been doing his darndest to win them over to his side through his own Weibo account on which he regularly aims both barrels at the PM in front of his 600,000+ audience. Rudd's latest spray ...

FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd has remembered our fallen military men and women at an Anzac Day dawn service in New York. ... The event, which was hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Consuls General at the Vietnam Veteran's Plaza in downtown Manhattan, has grown bigger by the year ...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has slammed the United States' decision to withdraw its nominated ambassador to Australia. The Trump administration plans to overturn its nomination of Admiral Harry Harris as the next United States ambassador to Australia, putting him forward as envoy to South Korea ...

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd joked about interacting with many Chinese youth who seemed to prioritize materialism over Marxist ideals ... In an introduction, Atwood stressed Rudd's role in helping Australia overcome the financial crisis and advocating for action against climate change by ...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard's 2010 election campaign, in which the Labor Party retained government but lost its parliamentary majority, was the worst run in the party's history, according to the man she removed from power, Kevin Rudd. In one of his first public attacks on his bitter political rival, Mr Rudd has ...

We are encouraged because it means the community remains interested in the topic and its impact on many Australian families. We are frustrated by the lack of ... In 2008 then prime minister Kevin Rudd said: “In a country as prosperous as Australia, no one should be homeless.'' A decade on it seems little ...

It is not just Cricket Australia and the Test team that have a lot to learn from the ball tampering scandal in Cape Town last weekend. ... Former prime minister Kevin Rudd used confidentiality to advance his own cause and damage his rivals, many journalists allowing him to use their moral codes against them ...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd, now president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, told ABC News from Hong Kong that the scandal was harming ... "I think the recent chairmanship of Cricket Australia, under David Peever, opens up a whole series of questions, I mean Peever brought to Australian cricket ...

Our organ donor system, the doctor told Koch, was one of the world's worst. “It made me so mad because I thought this is almost un-Australian so I got involved.” That helped to produce a blueprint for an authority convincing enough for prime minister Kevin Rudd, the Health Department and Treasury to back ...

Exclusive modelling for The Australian by Deloitte Access Economics reveals the cuts to personal income tax that would be possible by abolishing family tax benefits. The Deloitte ... Kevin Rudd's attempt to adopt one, a mining super-profits tax, precipitated the end of his prime ministership. “We've made ...

On the 13th February 2008, during my third week of school in Australia, we stopped class. One of the teachers wheeled in an old television on a trolley, and we were told to listen as the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, publicly apologised to the 'Stolen Generation' for the first time. As a recently emigrated ...

The Australian cricket team is Australia, so the way in which its players carry themselves influences how Australians view ourselves. The shame they have brought on ... The same can't be said for the revolving door of recent PMs (Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, and Tony Abbott). I'm not saying that a love of ...

Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd and former coalition trade minister Andrew Robb have featured among the prominent critics of the federal ... after ASIO's Director General Duncan Lewis told an Australian parliamentary committee that foreign intelligence services were targeting Australia on a scale ...

Cast your mind back to the glory days of Australian politics: 2010-2013, when Julia Gillard knifed Kevin Rudd, Kevin Rudd knifed Julia Gillard, and the whole Labor government got spectacularly turfed out of office, ushering in the joyous reign of Prime Minister Tony Abbott. In June 2013, then-Prime Minister ...

The daughter of former prime minister Kevin Rudd said few Australians would have expected the dramatic growth in infant formula sales from Australia to China ... Ms Rudd said this was a market that was strongly driven by Australia-based Chinese shoppers who could see a demand in China for Australian ...

John Howard has defended his decision to commit Australia to the 2003 invasion of Iraq after Kevin Rudd accused him of lying about Saddam Hussein's weapons ... The former Liberal prime minister said the “available evidence” from Australian intelligence agencies prior to the invasion was that Iraq was in ...

Abbott claimed about $73,200 in domestic flights that coincided with “former prime minister – official business” travel. This is as much as the flight expenses for all other former prime ministers combined – John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating – in the same period. Abbott ...

In the case of Iraq, despite the heroic efforts of US, British and Australian troops, we have witnessed: the outbreak of sectarian violence between the ... its WMD capabilities would make it possible for terrorist groups like al-Qaeda to obtain WMDs, threatening the security of other states including Australia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping could be more vulnerable than ever, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd recently told US cadets. Xi, who can rule China indefinitely after presidential term limits were recently scrapped, has slowly become the "Chairman of Everything," overseeing numerous small ...

Beijing: Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has told the Westpoint military academy in the United States that China sees its maritime ... Former PM Kevin Rudd has urged the US Army to understand China. ... China's response was to seek to fracture the ring of US allies, which includes Australia.

SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) - Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said America's allies are likely to suffer fallout from the Trump administration's move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports as it tries to target China's vast trade surplus with the United States. "Remember on steel, it's not just ...

Kevin Rudd greets the first chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Lowitja O'Donoghue, at Parliament House in 2008. ... In recent years, Australian politics has degenerated from comedy (Tony Abbott grovelling to the Duke of Edinburgh) to tragedy (Malcolm Turnbull grovelling to Peter ...

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Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned opposition leader Bill Shorten not to get too close to the militant construction union, saying its officials in Victoria and West Australia "didn't pass muster". Mr Rudd told Sky News on Monday that while Labor factional elements criticised him for not being close ...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says PM Malcolm Turnbull is publicly punching the Chinese in the face with gratuitous insults to China. ... The former prime minister has accused Mr Turnbull of derailing the Australia-China relationship in favour of trade deals with Europe following comments he made in ...

THE daughter of former prime minister Kevin Rudd has volunteered to head to a tattoo parlour in the name of charity. Jessica Rudd has joined close friend, Cannon Hill mum Renee Steenstra, in a bold bid to raise $20,000 for MS Research Australia. In 2011, at the age of 29, Ms Steenstra was diagnosed ...