The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence.… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide.… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share
