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By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

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Kevin Rudd
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 21
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Former Prime Minister Of Australia
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Kevin Michael Rudd
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I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
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People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.
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By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.
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But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.
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For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.
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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
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I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.
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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 and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
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Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
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Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.
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Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.
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I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.
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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
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We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.
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As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.
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The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.
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Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.
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