Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Australia Birth: January 18, 1944
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. Thi….
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong.
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads o….
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage..
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus….
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is lo….
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the….
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find ….
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you..
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience..
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government..
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours..
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable..
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism..
I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage..
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct ass….
In the end, rational policy is always good..
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, i….
Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?.
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies..