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
With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through… — 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
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this… — 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
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we… — 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
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
No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have… — 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
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