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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that Australia must be prepared to respond to an emerging arms race across the Asia-Pacific region.

Rudd can round up his own military and go for it, if he wants to. Oh! right! he is no longer Prime Minister.

Government officials said the army would be deployed to help out, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced immediate emergency aid of $7m.

Mr Rudd will be the first Labor prime minister to be dumped by his party before he could complete a term in office.

Then, while politicians elsewhere were squaring up to their banks, Mr Rudd decided to go one better, and take on the miners.

Prior to his election Rudd said he would say sorry through a simple statement to the nation.

On Friday, Mr Hu complimented Mr Rudd on his fluency and thanked him for his commitment to developing the Australia-China relationship.

KEVIN RUDD Kevin Rudd said the current rate of immigration is a year (2007) on the basis of growth.

U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates might have had reason to be upset with the Rudd government.

Late on Sunday, he said he had accepted an offer from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to send in troops to relieve overstretched emergency crews.

Despite their plan's gaps, Mr Rudd and Penny Wong, his climate-change minister, seem to have got the politics right, for now.

Rudd is no radical on economic issues but nationalism lurks below the surface of his Labor party.

After years of campaigning, survivors gathered to hear Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, offer a formal apology for this "great evil" .

Unfortunately, by the time Rudd had arrived at the train station, the poor forgetful man had forgotten the name of his destination himself.

' When that happens you see the child cling to a parent and cry, convinced there's a very real chance of harm, " Rudd told LiveScience. "

Touring the devastated region, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he was "absolutely horrified" by the disaster.

Rudd had always been more popular with the public than with a party that saw him as aloof, a policy wonk in politician's clothing.

She was also quizzed about what she thought of the claims of former party leader, Mark Latham, that Mr Rudd was a serial leaker.

In Canberra, Rudd said he hoped the president would address the Australian parliament.

The tragedy of Kevin Rudd, deposed on Thursday as Australian prime minister, was that there were no "events. "

The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, said he was "sick in the stomach as I think all Australians would feel sick in the stomach. "

Mr Rudd flew to Sanya yesterday for the last leg of his China visit and around-the-world trip.

This seems to be what both Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd are suggesting.

Fact: During the "you know how I know you're gay" scene, Paul Rudd is wearing a t-shirt that has a picture of himself on it.

I had mentioned to one of his advisers I wanted to meet Rudd the human being, not Rudd the policy wonk.

This was not the only character assessment Downer has provided of Rudd recently.

As Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, tries to push through legislation to deal with global warming, coal is also one of his headaches.

One of these was a "resources super-profits tax" which Mr Rudd announced last month.

Prime Minister Rudd in Australia is trying to raise education standards.

Rudd's knowledge of the language and a stint as a diplomat in Beijing do not necessarily lead to admiration for China's government.

Kevin Rudd, his Australian counterpart, dismissed race as a motive, and called the violence "just a regrettable fact of urban life" .

We did not imagine the fall of Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, nor did we trail the political violence in Thailand.

The Rudd government came to power in a general election last November, promising voters that it would tackle the rising cost of fuel.

Just before he left for a visit to Japan in early June, Mr Rudd proposed the formation of a new regional body.

Kevin Rudd, the prime minister with an eye on the next election, accuses miners of offshoring profits from Australian mines.

Kevin Rudd seems to be obliviously marching towards poll oblivion.

Some former employee privately complain that his management style, said Rudd's anger can build up again within a minute and break out.

Despite Mr. Rudd's planned pull-back in Iraq, military ties between Australia and the U. S. remain strong.

Because it implied that although Gillard had been steadfastly loyal, Rudd did not trust her public assurances.

Not in Australia. The Labor government, under Kevin Rudd, is looking to increase the numbers of foreigners allowed to settle.

The children's kindness and encouragement touched the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Mr Rudd calls the build-up "the most powerful, integrated and sophisticated set of military capabilities" Australia has had.

Alastair Nicholson, a former judge, calls the Rudd government's changes a "cynical attempt to perpetuate racial discrimination" .

PrimeMinister Kevin Rudd recently called in to Japan on his way to theCopenhagen summit on climate change.

Mr. Rudd launched the idea of a security-focused Asian community forum and pledged Australia to a tough climate-change regime.

He is now foreign minister in Julia Gillard's cabinet: an adviser has warned me that Rudd will not talk about "the events of June 24" .

WHEN he led the Labor Party to victory in November, Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, boasted that he was a fiscal conservative.

The prime minister, Kevin Rudd, echoed the anger of a nation yesterday, when he described such actions as "mass murder" .

Mr Rudd is only the second Queenslander in Australian history to lead his party to a Federal election victory.

The explosion also posed the first test of the promise by Kevin Rudd, the Labor prime minister, of a more humane approach to refugees.

Mr Rudd plans to pay for all this by finding savings roughly equal to the infrastructure outlays.

After yesterday's performance, the Rudd factor moved into a new, unpredictable and perhaps uncontrollable phase.

Let us not fun Kevin Rudd is only the Prime Minister give us a reply, and the fire has been extinguished.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the changes were aimed at getting the "right skills mix for the future economy" .

Mr Rudd promises to help victims who wish to trace their families or are seeking to make provision for old age.

Kevin Rudd, as every Australian schoolboy knows, is one of the few Mandarin-speaking leaders outside Beijing.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, responded then (when he was opposition leader) that "those responsible should be held to account" .

Mr. Rudd made those comments Wednesday in a speech to students at Beijing University at the start of a four-day trip to China.

Mr Rudd seems keen not to let China's status as Australia's biggest trading partner override its security concerns.

"We're confident Mr. Rudd wants results and will develop policy based on evidence of what works, " he said.

Unless a miracle befalls the conservative coalition opposition, the Rudd formula will see him finish 2010 with a second election victory.

A report by the federal auditor cleared Mr Rudd of any wrongdoing.

Ms Gillard told ABC Radio in Perth that Mr Rudd would be welcome at Labor's campaign launch as an honoured former prime minister.

"Rudd has tied himself up unnecessarily by seeking to minimise the optics of his relationship with China, " says a senior Canberra lobbyist.

Former staff revealed Mr Rudd would freeze out anyone who disagreed with him.

Mr Rudd's real problems may start later this year, when a white paper will put figures on carbon caps up to 2050.

Mr Rudd's tears at his final press conference as prime minister began when he reflected on his support for organ donation.

About 100 members of the Stolen Generations were in parliament to hear the government apologize, some wiping away tears as Rudd spoke.

As an unhappy union official named Joe McDonald put it: "The only bloke I know who can speak Mandarin is Kevin Rudd. "

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will consider the plan of building housing the union.

She may offer Mr Rudd a place in cabinet, perhaps as foreign minister.

Mr Rudd says if he wins the ballot tomorrow he will not be giving ground to the right on issues like climate change and asylum seekers.

Things came to a head this evening as a number of Labor's most senior figures, including Ms Gillard, met in Mr Rudd's office.

Mr Rudd would leak the information to his media contacts as an anonymous source, Mr Downer said.

Mr Rudd resigned from the leadership at a caucus meeting on Thursday rather than force the party to a ballot.

Through technology and technocracy, Mr Rudd hopes to avoid being impaled on the horns of a herd of approaching dilemmas.

Malcolm Turnbull, Mr Abbott's predecessor, had agreed with Kevin Rudd's government on an emissions-trading scheme to combat climate change.

Mr. Rudd says the Australian Defense Force will be built up to meet the challenge.

Mr Rudd would not speculate whether Ms Gillard would stay on as Deputy PM if she lost the ballot tomorrow.

Kevin Rudd becomes the first Foreign Minister in Australia to resign from his post in another country.

It was the second such apology Mr Rudd has offered in under two years.

Mr Rudd came within a whisker of snaring bipartisan support for a market-based scheme to cut carbon pollution.

Mr Rudd will now be dealing with a country whose implacable faith in both the economy and nature to deliver abundance is starting to fray.

Mr Rudd's interview was filmed three weeks ago, and focused on the aortic valve transplant he had at the age of 35.

The world was a vastly different place to what it was two-thirds of a century ago, Mr Rudd said.

Then, Labor's ratings dropped amid fallout from Mr. Rudd's ouster and the party's handling of a controversial mining tax.

Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, recently heralded the overthrow of neoliberalism, "the economic orthodoxy of our time" .

Rudd's stimulus worked: Australia had the shortest and shallowest of recessions of the advanced industrial countries.

Mr Rudd has always backed the war but support for it among Australians has dropped steeply from the two-thirds of 2001.

"You don't have to have a wire tap on the conversation between Kevin Rudd and Laurie Oakes to know it was Kevin Rudd, " Mr Latham said.

"Rudd in free fall" headlines have disappeared, at least for now.

But China's expectations, and Japan's fears, that Rudd will prove especially friendly to Beijing are unlikely to be realized.

A week earlier, to oblige Mr Rudd, Indonesia's navy intercepted a boat with 250-odd Sri Lankans heading for Australia.

The police disclosure that the e-mail was a fake took the political heat off Mr Rudd.

"He's talking too much, " Rudd jokes, nodding at me.

Kevin Rudd has provided some much-needed clarity on the long-term importance of China to Australia in his recent speeches.

With fears of economic downturn in the air, the Rudd Government has toughened the selection criteria for general skilled migration.

And Mr Rudd's short temper had won him few friends to call on when the final crisis loomed.

Mr Rudd was born in the country town of Nambour in Queensland in 1957, the son of a share farmer and a nurse.

If Gillard had stayed firm in her resolve to pace herself, Rudd would still be prime minister.

A Chinese bid or purchase of a large stake in Rio Tinto would test Kevin Rudd, Australia's Labor prime minister, who speaks Mandarin.

Gillard will become the country's first woman acting prime minister when Kevin Rudd flies to Bali for a conference on global warming.

No, Timothy, not when we have a woman who according to Rudd, is one of the shrewdest legal and political minds of our time.

Rudd is an impassioned, charismatic speaker, brimming with quiet confidence, even when speaking in Chinese.

I think the political problems caused to Rudd will mean that other countries will be very wary about following this.

Barnaby Joyce, of the junior opposition National Party, is less ambivalent. He calls Mr Rudd's plans an "employment-termination scheme" .

Mr. Rudd endorsed the idea of a 'Big Australia' but Ms. Gillard argues population growth must be sustainable.

Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, backed by factional Labor Party warlords, has made a tilt at Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's leadership .

The work was supported in part by the Rudd Foundation, a private philanthropic organization focusing on obesity and education.

Mr. Swan grew up, as Mr. Rudd did, in the state of Queensland and attended the same high school, though they weren't close then.

Now comes the embarrassing news that Labor branding is nowhere to be seen on Mr Rudd's official campaign posters.

On January 31st Mr Rudd prepared the ideological ground for this shift with a much-discussed article in the Monthly, a magazine.

The year will be a crucial test for two initiatives the Rudd government has launched to get the river flowing to sustainable levels again.

Mr. Rudd told parliament Tuesday that "confronting climate change is the challenge of our generation. "

For the moment, Mr Rudd, who has made a confident start since his resounding victory in November's election, seems convinced he can manage.

The appointment would require Mr Rudd to attend three meetings over the next 18 months.

But the bulk of Mr Rudd's stimulus, almost A$30 billion, will go on infrastructure: new school buildings, road repairs and house insulation.

But Mr Rudd has dismissed the idea of directly lobbying on behalf of Mr Hu in favour of working "methodically" through the issue with China.

Mr Rudd's main target, though, was a turbulent legacy left by John Howard, his conservative predecessor.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's foreign minister, managed to sum up republican views of the royal wedding pretty well.

But this week Mr Rudd climbed down from what seemed a defining pledge of his leadership.

In Port Moresby both Mr Key and Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, pressed for a tough response on Fiji.

Opposition to Mr Rudd's plans is now so entrenched in parliament that he is contemplating calling an early election.

Kevin Rudd's long-term vision sees a new Asia-Pacific grouping that would address the region's economic, security and political challenges.

KEVIN RUDD, Australia's prime minister, has much political capital riding on his promise to tackle climate change.

But for a party Ms. Gillard said had 'lost its way' under Mr. Rudd, the challenge is winning that mandate.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a speech in Chinese at Peking University today, winning warm applause from the audience.

Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, was accused of bowing to populist pressure in an election year.

But, as the Rudd Center notes, overall, french fries still rule and remain the default side dish almost everywhere.

Rudd may try to play down Beijing's concerns that Canberra is part of a China-containment coalition.

Gillard is portrayed by some political commentators as a warmer, more voter-friendly politician than the bookish Rudd.

Fifty four Australians registered living in the city but there were probably hundreds of Australians residents in the area, Mr Rudd said.

Mr. Rudd's visit to Japan will be dominated by talks on trade and is also likely to feature the sensitive issue of whaling.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd also wants a more active role for non-government organizations in the aid program.

Mr. Rudd's successor, Julia Gillard, brokered a deal with major miners to reduce the headline rate of the tax to 30% from 40%.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd earned plaudits for his fluency in Mandarin.

Mr Rudd's misfortunes began in April, when he dropped a proposed emissions-trading scheme.

Ms Gillard later addressed the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in South Brisbane, which falls inside Mr Rudd's electorate.

But Mr Tanner announced that he was quitting on the day in June that Julia Gillard unseated Kevin Rudd as Labor leader and prime minister.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's recently elected prime minister, is watching his country being pulled in several directions at once.

Indeed Mr Rudd appears to have a keener sense than Mr Howard of a growing strategic dilemma.

Rudd's successor, Julia Gillard, has given no sign of a major change of direction.

I know quite a few people that have lost out (under Work Choices) and they'll be voting for Rudd.

KEVIN RUDD made a pact with the voters of Australia last night to step forward with them and forge a new future for the nation.

In 1988 Mr Rudd returned to Queensland to work as Chief of Staff to the Hon Wayne Goss, the Queensland Opposition Leader.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on the appointment of Quentin Bryce, Australia's first female governor general.

Late Wednesday night Mr Rudd remained defiant and vowed to fight until the end but by early Thursday morning he was encouraged to step down.

Mr Rudd was constantly searching for ways of binding the US more firmly into Asia's still-developing institutional architecture.

Q: It is reported that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said something impolite at the Copenhagen Conference about China's actions.

In Australia, investors were encouraged by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to spend billions of dollars to strengthen the economy.

Mr. Rudd says that arsonists suspected of starting some of Victoria's fires are guilty of "mass murder. "

On Iraq, Rudd will oversee a gradual exit of Australia's combat troops, but that would probably have happened anyway.

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should personally intervene to secure Mr Hu's release.

Gillard was a party to every major decision of the Rudd government.

This will worry Mr Rudd as he faces an election by the end of 2010.

Rudd wrote the speech himself, having rejected various drafts that he found too stilted or emotional.

"We don't want to be clean energy followers worldwide, we want to be clean energy leaders worldwide, " Mr Rudd said.

Mr Rudd's tactics to win over voters in Victoria and New South Wales have consequences far beyond Western Australia and Queensland.

Australian commodities analyst Peter Rudd says BHP has set records for the production of key minerals.

"The problem that we have inherited is the skill system of the previous government, " Mr Rudd told parliament.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, gave Japan an ultimatum yesterday to end its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters.

It was around then that polls showed many voters preferred her as prime minister over Mr. Rudd.

Mr. Rudd said Tuesday he believes the bilateral relationship 'will sustain these sorts of pressures. '

This divide, argues Lindsay Tanner, a minister in Mr Rudd's government, reflects a division of political culture.

Yet China will present Mr Rudd with a foreign-policy challenge.

Prime Minister Rudd remains committed to keeping Australia's one-thousand troops in Afghanistan.

appointment, his classes even his meals. Since Rudd was a professpr at a famous.

At the same time, the Indonesian government extended an invitation to Mr Rudd, who it believed to be more sympathetic towards it.

After Ms Gillard deposed Mr Rudd as leader, she promised not to introduce a carbon tax.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that economic conditions will worsen this year.

Tell Rudd that the US is broke, busted up, tired and in no mood or condition for another fight, especially not with China.

Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, is due in Beijing later in the week to promote his country's trade links with China.

Pillay has held what she describes as "frank and forthright" talks on the Malaysian plan with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.

He started yesterday with his sneering innuendo, of asylum seekers being "Lured by Rudd to their deaths? " .

Yet for Mr Rudd to refuse to meet the Dalai Lama would in turn arouse intense domestic controversy.

Ms Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister in June, after a brisk act of party regicide that did for Kevin Rudd.

When Kevin Rudd led the Labor Party to power in 2007, he promised, as a "fiscal conservative" to keep this ball rolling.

In his answer, Rudd spoke about the continuing need for Australia to secure its sea and air lanes .

Gates told reporters Friday he is expecting continuity in U. S. -Australian relations despite Mr. Rudd's withdrawal plans.

The Vice Premier met Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and held talks with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

This is a more dramatic roll, and it shows how well Mr. Rudd can hold his own as a dramatic lead.

Rudd says mankind has rarely faced such complex, interconnected problems.

Rudd also wants Australian charities and other non-government relief agencies to have a greater role in reducing poverty overseas.

This is a repudiation of the preoccupation with the news cycle that characterised the Rudd government.

"It's nature's way of protecting us, " said clinical psychologist David Rudd.

Mr Rudd countered in November with "Howard's Brutopia" , an article in the Monthly, a centre-left journal.

Mr Rudd said that his trip of more than a fortnight would mainly involve hearing and selling economic messages.

I turn to the subject of Thomas Rudd, his ancestor, who was transported from London to Australia in 1789.

Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, declined to comment on specific investments.

Mr Rudd accused the Liberal Party, the main opposition party, which ruled for 11 years before the crisis, of being Australia's neoliberals.

An election is due later this year, galvanising Mr Rudd's efforts to make good some of those promises, such as ending whaling.

Abbott threatens to scuttle current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's proposed cap and trade bill.

The Keating Labor Government was defeated at the 1996 election and Mr Rudd's bid to win a seat in parliament was unsuccessful.

Rudd has said Australia in the South China Sea dispute settlement process is also of interest.

Rudd laughs when he tells the story. But it is a laugh tinged with sadness.

In a nationwide address, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was optimistic about the future, but said that immediate action was needed.

Mr Rudd has staked a claim to represent the "reforming centre" of Australian politics.

Mr Rudd, who eventually took over the shadow portfolio in 2001, wholly denied the claims.

This posed a stark choice for Mr Rudd. He has promised big spending on health, education and attacking climate change.

Mr. Rudd will join other world leaders at the APEC summit in Peru Saturday and Sunday.

Did Tuvalu sink? Did polar bears become extinct? Did Kevin Rudd fix climate change? Nup.

The negotiations were re- energised after the 2007 election of Kevin Rudd, Australia's mandarin-speaking prime minister.

In 2008, Kevin Rudd (KEVIN RUDD) said that Australia is willing to develop long-term cooperation with Chinese partners.

There's a particular irony in Mr Rudd saying he'll reform national education standards given his time in the Queensland Cabinet Office.

Mr. Obama spoke after meeting with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Afghanistan, the world economic crisis and other topics.

"My husband thinks things will get worse with Rudd, back to where Labor had things in 1983, " Jepson says.

From Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd summed up his sentiments.

Policy aside, the thinking is that the fast pace of government under Rudd has outstripped the ability of the electorate to keep up.

THE week began disastrously for Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister.

Rudd was not assassinated over any great policy question.

Mr Rudd spent 2008 calmly dismantling the conservative social legacy of John Howard, his predecessor.

But an opinion poll published on Monday found that 58% of people approved of Mr Rudd's handling of the China relationship.

But Mr Rudd made it apparent that he still felt the loss of his job keenly.

My oldest son is studying at Shanghai 's Fudan University , " said Rudd. "

Mr Rudd said such guesses compromised possible prosecutions of people smugglers.

Rudd's centre-left Labor Party won elections 97 days ago on November 24, 2007, ending almost 12 years of conservative rule.

Mr. Rudd said OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has to increase supply.

For now, Mr Rudd's government faces the more mundane task of delivering its first budget in May.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to bring home 550 combat troops by the middle of this year.

KEVIN RUDD Kevin Rudd said Australia is the idea put forward the most suitable candidates.

Mr Rudd has little political capital to spare on a fight over mining.

Mr Rudd has promised that shattered townships will be rebuilt "brick by brick" .

Telstra hoped the new government of Kevin Rudd, elected in 2007, would be more amenable.

Mr Rudd, formerly a Beijing-based diplomat, speaks Chinese.

I have come to meet Rudd, 53, in his constituency of Griffith, a Brisbane suburb.

The measures were not directed at China, Mr Rudd stressed at the time.

"Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria in the last 24 hours, " said Mr Rudd.

President Obama and Prime Minister Rudd have discussed the situation by phone.

New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a good example.

We see this in our own region, " said Rudd. " We see a substantial arms build-up over time.

Mr Rudd still seems determined to get his scheme into law before an election due in late 2010.

Mr Rudd on Wednesday night denied he was behind the leaks.

Mr Rudd contested the Federal seat of Griffith for the Australian Labor Party in 1996.

But, come the election, Mr Rudd has other things on his side: relative youth (at 49 he is 18 years Mr Howard's junior), stability and drive.

Rudd's poll support fell brutally in April and May, but had stabilised.

In 1988, Mr Rudd was promoted to the rank of Counsellor and later to the Senior Executive Service.

When Rudd arrives, a discreet murmur of recognition goes up.

The budget, more than the summit, may decide if Mr Rudd's honeymoon continues.

Personal Rudd hire, taking up a bill.

But the motives for Mr Rudd's whale-protection fervour are not wholly pure.

The Australian Industry Group, a big business lobby, had endorsed the Rudd-Turnbull deal days before its demise.

As a result even if Rudd has a vision for the country no one can put their finger on it.

Born in Nambour, Queensland on September 21st 1957, Rudd joined the Australian Labour Party when he was 15.

Mr Rudd was reticent to discuss his plans in last night's interview.

In May Mr Rudd said that a 40% tax would be levied on mining profits above a certain level.

Overall, Rudd's room for policy maneuver is limited.

One reason for that is the election last November of Labor and Mr Rudd.

I am asking the Rudd Labor government not to sell the source of our wealth.

Some have accused Mr Rudd of being the leaker, but he has denied being the source.

The centre-left government of Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, expects unemployment to reach 7 per cent by mid-2010.