ENG: Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian politician, the current Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a former Prime Minister of Australia. He has been the member for the House of Representatives seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election. He was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, from December 2007 until June 2010, when he stood down in favour of Julia Gillard.
Rudd was born in Queensland and grew up on a dairy farm. He joined the Australian Labor Party at the age of 15 and was dux of Nambour State High School in 1974. He studied an arts degree in Asian studies at the Australian National University, majoring in Chinese language and Chinese history. In 1981, he married Thérèse Rein and they have three children. He ...
IT IS the spiritual Jewish sect that has become the religion du jour of Hollywood celebrities such as Madonna, Paris Hilton and David Beckham - and now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can claim some association with Kabbalah.According to the register of the Prime Minister's interests Kevin Rudd accepted a gift of all 23 volumes of Kabbalah's sacred text The Zohar in September.The gift forms part of a global strategy by Kabbalah groups to have The Zohar distributed to governments, hospitals and prisons around the world in the belief that its presence in the buildings protects people from violent or ...
Oh, to have Kevin Rudd's travel kitty.In the first seven months of the Rudd government, the prime minister's overseas jaunts cost taxpayers just over $600,000, according to a register of parliamentary travel released on Thursday.But it wasn't just money being dished out.Mr Rudd handed back $105.85 related to a trip to Hong Kong in December 2005. It was revealed earlier this year that Mr Rudd used the visit as an excuse to get out of a dinner with disgraced former WA premier Brian Burke.The biggest ticket item on Mr Rudd's travel itinerary was an 18-day round-the-world trip, which took him to ...
Правительство Австралии приняло программу создания новых рабочих мест, сообщает Bloomberg.Как сообщил премьер-министр страны Кевин Руд (Kevin Rudd), федеральное правительство, а также все 8 штатов страны подписали соглашение о выделении в течение 4-5 лет 15 млрд австралийских долларов (9,9 млрд долларов США) на программу создания новых ...
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Kevin 747 lands climate panel job
Kevin 747 lands climate panel job Congratulations to former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin “Carbon Bigfoot” Rudd, on landing a job on the United Nations climate change panel. Now Kevin Rudd can jet around the world, preaching about the dangers of fossil fuels and how climate change is the biggest moral challenge of our time. I [...] |
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Kevin Rudd had potential. His pre-election campaign was a stunner. He only has disappointed since through censorship, debt or many more. My vote is lost from him.
