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Apology Challenges Climate Change Community Compassion Country Criticism

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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Strong, Australia, Challenges

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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?

Kevin Rudd

Country, Jobs, Australia

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

Kevin Rudd

Jobs, Believe, Sadness

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

Kevin Rudd

Leadership, Grief, Moving

"David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

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A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

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Opportunity, Australia, Challenges

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.

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Government, Hands, Long

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

Kevin Rudd

Home, School, Cities

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

Kevin Rudd

Apology, Past, Years

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

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Years, Australia, Government

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

Kevin Rudd

Australia, Ministers, Prime

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Kevin Rudd

Australia, Tears, Narrative

Address to the Chifley Research Centre Dinner Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the World's First Majority Labor Government Old Parliament House Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 06, 2010.

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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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Kids, Illness, Pale

Kevin Rudd's remarks during the press conference at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. April 6, 2009.

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I am determined to honour the confidence which has been extended to us by the people of our great land. And I say to all of those who have voted for us today, I say to each and every one of them that I will be a prime minister for all Australians.

Kevin Rudd

Land, People, Today

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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Voice, Australia, Issues

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

Kevin Rudd

Country, Australia, Long

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Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

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Australia, Stronger, Fundamentals

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that.

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People, Given, Australian

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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.

Kevin Rudd

Strong, Government, Australia

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

Kevin Rudd

Government, Games, Decision

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

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Dirty, Compassion, Views

Rudd's first speech as Labor leader, The Australian, December 5, 2006.

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Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

Kevin Rudd

Passionate, Practicals

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].

Kevin Rudd

Views, Would Be, Nominations

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No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.

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Past, Government, Support

"ALP in 'me-too' policy mess over death penalty" by Tony Wright, www.theage.com.au. October 10, 2007.

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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.

Kevin Rudd

Country, Party, Priorities

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We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Kevin Rudd

Wings, Ugly, Modern

Kevin Rudd's first speech to parliament as Labor Leader, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 5, 2006.

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