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 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
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 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
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
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
By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. — 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
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
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
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
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
It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse… — 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
My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as… — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image