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
I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others… — 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
As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
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 Image
Senator Obama's message of hope is not just for America's future, it is also a message of hope for the world as… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are… — 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
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
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great… — 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
