The Age logo The Age 1 month ago

The new boy on the block

HOW well do Australians understand Kevin Rudd? Not very well. Rudd is the least familiar and, in terms of time spent in the public gaze, the least experienced prime minister of the postwar period. Full Article at The Age

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  1. I am under no illusions that this policy and our implementation of it have been in any way popular in the Australian community
    Kevin Rudd – Kevin Rudd SOURCE: Wall Street Journal 1 month ago
  2. People smugglers are using these laws to send more people our way ... Something needs to be done. The Rudd Government has got a band-aid solution. The Indonesian solution is an Indonesian fiasco and it's clearly not working.
    – Steve Fielding SOURCE: The Age 1 month ago
  3. If in fact it is true that most of the asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking have been living in Indonesia for five years, then that completely demolishes Kevin Rudd's argument that the only reason we're seeing this recent surge in the last 12 months of so is because of … the end of the hostilities of th...
    Malcolm Turnbull – Malcolm Turnbull SOURCE: The Age 1 month ago
  4. I'm unaware of what the outcome of any processing or initial processing or initial discussions may be, concerning their status
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  1. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown poses with Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (R) before a meeting at a hotel beside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 15, 2009.
  2. TOKYO - DECEMBER 15: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) shakes hand with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) prior to their meeting at Hatoyama's official residence on December 15, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Rudd visits Japan on the way to attend COP 15 taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  3. DNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 12: A life size model of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a bath tub is carried during the Walk Against Warming in Martin Place on December 12, 2009 in Sydney, Australia.
  4. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 30: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk toward the media for a photo-op prior to their meeting at the State Department November 30, 2009 in Washington, DC.
  5. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 30: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (R) greets Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd outside the Treasury Building November 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. Rudd and Geithner met following the Prime Minister's meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.
  6. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 30: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (R) waves as he leaves the West Wing of the White House on November 30, 2009 in Washington, DC. Rudd met with U.S. President Barack Obama and is scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton later today.
  7. PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - NOVEMBER 29: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attends the 2nd Executive Session on the third day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at the Hyatt Hotel on November 29, 2009 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad And Tobago.

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  2. Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Turnbull
  3. Paul Keating Paul Keating
  4. Peter Costello Peter Costello
  5. Barnaby Joyce
  6. Malcolm Fraser Malcolm Fraser