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Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian diplomat and former politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and June to September 2013. He held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP) and was the member of parliament (MP) for the Queensland division of Griffith from 1998 to 2013.
Kevin Rudd, who had successfully re-contested his seat at the election, accepted an offer to become minister for foreign affairs. [25] Rudd regained the leadership, and the prime ministership, at the June 2013 Australian Labor Party leadership spill, shortly before Labor lost government at the 2013 Australian federal election.
Clockwise from upper left: Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, and Lindsay Tanner. The Strategic Priorities Budget Committee (SPBC), better known as the Gang of Four , was a political strategic grouping within the Australian Labor Party , comprising then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd , his deputy Julia Gillard , Treasurer Wayne Swan and Finance ...
Australia's government backed its ambassador to Washington, the former prime minister Kevin Rudd, after U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump called the key diplomat "a little bit nasty" in a ...
Kevin Rudd led the Labor Party to a landslide victory at the 2007 federal election, becoming Prime Minister on 3 December. On the same day, Julia Gillard was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister. On 23 June 2010 Gillard publicly requested that Rudd call a leadership election for the following day. Despite declaring that he would stand in the ...
Throughout 2006 the Right of the Labor Party, especially in New South Wales and Victoria, had quietly canvassed replacing Beazley and his deputy Jenny Macklin with Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, respectively. Rudd was loosely aligned with the Right, while Gillard was a moderate left-winger.
Australia's ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, cautioned in a speech that the global consequences of a war over Taiwan would be as great as the impact of the Second World War, making the ...
Martin Short joined a very rare club this week on Saturday Night Live… and plenty of very rare celebrities were there to join him. Saturday’s SNL opened with Tom Hanks explaining how he ...