- Born
- Birth nameKevin Michael Rudd
- Nicknames
- Kevin 07
- Dr. Death
- KRudd
- Dudd
- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- Kevin Rudd was born on September 21, 1957 in Nambour, Queensland, Australia. He has been married to Thérèse Rein since 1981. They have three children.
- SpouseThérèse Rein(1981 - present) (3 children)
- Children
- Short temper
- Glasses
- Abrasive personality
- Prime Minister of Australia (3 December 2007 - 24 June 2010) (26 June 2013 - 18 September 2013).
- Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 September 2010 - 22 February 2012).
- He is the first former prime minister to have returned to the office since Robert Menzies in 1949.
- Rudd and his wife Thérèse Rein have three children: Jessica (born 1984), Nicholas (born 1986), and Marcus (born 1993), and one granddaughter, Josephine (born 2012); Josephine is the daughter of Jessica and her husband Albert Tse, whom she married in 2007.
- Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.
- Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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