Kevin Rudd

Despite Gillard's Victory, Australian Uranium Exports to India Debate Far from Over

Eddie Walsh | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: India, Australia, Bob Carr, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Australian Labor Party, Foreign Policy, United Nations, Nuclear, Labor Right, Labor Left, Uranium-Exports, World News
Eddie Walsh

While the tabloid media has savored the opportunity to skewer Kevin Rudd, his failed attempt to lead the government has consequences beyond his own political ambitions. On the foreign policy front, the Gillard Coalition will likely now reorient the country's foreign policy.

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Enjoying Sydney's Delights

Kristofer Eisenla | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Australia, Lgbt, Kylie Minogue, Australian Labor Party, Darling Harbour, Julia Gillard, Oxford Street, Kevin Rudd, Sydney Aquarium, Circular Quay, Sydney, Gay Pride, Travel News
Kristofer Eisenla

Whether heading to Manly or the Zoo or Watson Bay, which offers a view of where the ocean meets the bay, it's a nice way to get out of the city without getting out of the city.

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POWER STRUGGLE

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Australia, Prime Miinister Kevin Rudd, Australia Power Struggle, Australia Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Video, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Saturday that she is "incredibly confident" of leading her Labor Party to victory in ele...

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Australia's Foreign Minister Resigns

AP | ROD McGUIRK and MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Australia Labor Party, Australia, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Julia Gillard put her job on the line Thursday, announcing a leadership ballot in hopes of quashing a comeb...

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Kevin Rudd's Vegemite Causes Concern At Airport

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Kevin Rudd, Global Pulse, Kevin Rudd Vegemite, Airport Security, Vegemite, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Video, Travel News

Former Australian Prime Minister (and current Foreign Minister) Kevin Rudd had a run-in with security at the airport in Mexico City en route to New Yo...

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'China Is Succeeding Based On Ideas That Americans Despise'

TIME | Michael Shulman | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Communism, India, Taiwan, Beijing, Australia, Hu Jintao, Hong Kong, Kevin Rudd, Asian Flu, Japan, Asia, China, Shanghai, Business News

It's hard to argue that the rise of China, taken on the whole, is anything but good for the global economy. New wealth for China's 1.3 billion people ...

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Australian FM: U.S. To Blame For WikiLeaks

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kevin Rudd WikiLeaks, Australia, Wikileaks US, Wikileaks Julian Assange, Wikileaks, Wikileaks Australia, Kevin Rudd Julian Assange, Kevin Rudd, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's foreign minister said Wednesday that the U.S. government is responsible for the leaking of hundreds of thousan...

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Aussie PM Blasts Robin Williams Over 'English Rednecks' Quip (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robin Williams Letterman Australia Joke, Kevin Rudd, Robin Williams Australia Joke, Robin Williams Australia, Robin Williams, Robin Williams Letterman, Video, World News

A lot of people find comedian Robin Williams funny, but Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd doesn't seem to be one of them. Rudd lashed out at Wi...

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Julia Gillard: Australia's First Female Prime Minister

Alex Rafalowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Left Wing, Labor, Julia Gillard Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Alp, World News
Alex Rafalowicz

Thursday in Canberra, Julia Gillard emerged from a meeting of the parliamentary Labor Party ('the caucus') as the new leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Australia Woman Prime Minister, Australia Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Australia PM, Julia Gillard Prime Minister, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — A sudden revolt within Australia's ruling party gave the country its first woman prime minister, who promised Thursday to ...

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Shen Neng 1 Owners 'Sorry' For Great Barrier Reef Crash

AFP | Marc Lavine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Ship Apology, Chinese Ship Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Oil Spill, Kevin Rudd, Great Barrier Reef Apology, Coal Carrier, Chinese Ship, Our Oceans, Chinese Ship Aground, Hu Wei, Great Barrier Reef, Shen Neng 1, Green News

SYDNEY (AFP) - The owners of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef causing an environmental crisis admitted Friday that the vessel...

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While Australia Leads for Whales, U.S. Lags

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Obama Administration, International Whaling Commission, Japan, Moratorium, Australia, Whales, Pierce Brosnan, Whaling, Kevin Rudd, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States, together with actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely Shaye Smith, are aski...

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When Barack Obama Goes Down Under

Antony Loewenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Australia, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Kevin Rudd, Guantanamo, Canberra, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, World News
Antony Loewenstein

Obama's upcoming visit to Australia will be primarily an election year opportunity for PM Kevin Rudd to bask in the glow of a President whose popularity is diving in America, but remains buoyant globally.

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'London Calling' Re: the Climate Bill

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Election, Barack Obama, Sen. Lindsay Graham, Kevin Rudd, Climate Bill, Green News
Giles Slade

All around the world, it seems, awareness that the world has reached its environmental limits vies with a pathological inability to prepare for the climate crisis.

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Australia To Japan: Stop All Whaling Or Face International Legal Challenge (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Australia is turning up the heat on Japan's whaling practices. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that unless Japan reduces all whaling ac...

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Commonwealth Leaders Call For Ambitious, "Legally Binding" Climate Change Deal

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change ...

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It's Greener than You Think Down Under

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalization, Cap and Trade, Sustainability, Climate Change, Green Living, Australia, Kevin Rudd, Green News
Jennifer Schwab

On a whim, I spent part of the holiday season in Sydney, Australia. To my surprise, I found the folks Down Under are ahead of us in a number of ways when it comes to going green.

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Kevin Rudd, Australian PM, Apologizes For Kids Shipped From Britain To Colonies

AP | ROD McGUIRK and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colony, Britain, Australia, Great Britain, England, Kevin Rudd, Prime Miinister Kevin Rudd, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told...

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Climate Change May Lead To A Sunken Australia

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Gold Coast, Penny Wong, Department of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Kevin Rudd, Climate Change, Prime Miinister Kevin Rudd, Gold Coast Australia, World News

By Sonia Ulliana , GlobalPost GOLD COAST, Australia -- The prediction is dire. Coastal towns will be left to fall into the sea by governments in ...

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Learning from Down Under: Where Labor Policy is Center Stage

Thomas Kochan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Policy, Labor Policy, Labor, Biden Middle Class Task Force, Australia, Fair Work Act, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Employment Relations Systems, Australia Labor Government, Australian Labor Law, Australia Labor Laws, Politics News
Thomas Kochan

Our friends down under have set a benchmark for the U.S. We don't usually look beyond our boarders for lessons on domestic policy, but Australia has recognized employment relations as central to economic vitality.

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Ferry Sinks Off Tonga; Dozens Missing

AP | PESI FONUA | Posted 05.25.2011

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NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — Giving women and children the comfort of cabins while men stayed on deck may have doomed them to be trapped inside an overni...

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Stern Hu Detained In China, Australia Moves Cautiously In Effort To Free Executive

nytimes.com | MERAIAH FOLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, China Australia, Stern Hu China, Australia, Stern Hu, Kevin Rudd, Australia China, Rio Tinto China, China, World News

SYDNEY, Australia The government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been walking a political tightrope since the detention last week of an Australian mi...

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Baron Cohen's Bruno Hits On Australian Prime Minister

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno, Kevin Rudd, Entertainment News

SYDNEY — British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's new character has a thing for Australia's wonkish prime minister. Baron Cohen, once better known ...

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Afghanistan: Australia To Send 450 More Troops

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Australian Troops, Kevin Rudd, War Wire, Foreign Affairs, Australian Troops Afghanistan, World News

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia announced Wednesday it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about 1,550 as part of the ...

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Alison Woodhead: Brown's Busiest Day

G20Voice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Australia, Kevin Rudd, G20 - London, United Kingdom, Oxfam, g20, g20voice, londonsummit2009, Global Financial Crisis, World News
G20Voice

Gordon Brown repeatedly made the point that Thursday is part of a process of building a new economy; not an attempt to solve it all in one day.

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