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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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Queensland
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Kevin Michael Rudd
The Honorable Kevin Rudd
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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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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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The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
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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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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
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We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.
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I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .
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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.
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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 future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader?
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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
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I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.
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Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls
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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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