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'''Kevin Rudd''' is an Australian politician and leader of the federal parliamentary [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]]. At the federal level, the ALP is currently in opposition to a conservative coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party.
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'''Kevin Rudd''' is is the [[Australia]]n [[Prime Minister]]-in-waiting, and leader of the federal parliamentary [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]]. At the federal level, the ALP won the 24th November 2007 election.
  
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Kevin Rudd has been leader of the opposition since deposing the previous leader of the [[Australian Labor Party|ALP]], [[Kim Beazley]] in a leadership ballot. Since that time, he has enjoyed unprecedented public popularity having campaigned successfully on issues such as the environment and climate change, education and industrial relations policy.
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Kevin Rudd became leader of the opposition after deposing the previous leader of the ALP, [[Kim Beazley]] in a leadership ballot. Since that time, he has enjoyed unprecedented public popularity having campaigned successfully on issues such as the environment and climate change, education and industrial relations policy.
  
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He has been accused of copying some of his policies (in particular economic policies) from the more conservative [[Prime Minister]] [[John Howard]] in a bid to win office, believing that the electorate finds these policies appealling.
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He was accused of copying some of his policies (in particular economic policies) from his more conservative predecessor [[John Howard]] in a bid to win office, believing that the electorate finds these policies appealling.
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Rudd will bid to become [[Prime Minister]] at the federal election to be held on 24 November 2007.
 
  
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Revision as of 11:59, November 24, 2007

Kevin Rudd is is the Australian Prime Minister-in-waiting, and leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party. At the federal level, the ALP won the 24th November 2007 election.

Kevin Rudd became leader of the opposition after deposing the previous leader of the ALP, Kim Beazley in a leadership ballot. Since that time, he has enjoyed unprecedented public popularity having campaigned successfully on issues such as the environment and climate change, education and industrial relations policy.

He was accused of copying some of his policies (in particular economic policies) from his more conservative predecessor John Howard in a bid to win office, believing that the electorate finds these policies appealling.

Australian Prime Ministers
Edmund Barton (1901)

Alfred Deakin (1903, 1905, and 1909)
John Watson (1904)
George Reid (1904)
Andrew Fisher (1908, 1910, and 1914)
Joseph Cook (1913)
William Hughes (1915)

 Stanley Bruce (1923)

James Scullin (1929)
Joseph Lyons (1932)
Earle Page (1939)
Robert Menzies (1939 and 1949)
Arthur Fadden (1941)
John Curtin (1941)

 Francis Forde (1945)

Joseph Chifley (1945)
Harold Holt (1966)
John McEwen (1967)
John Gorton (1968)
William McMahon (1971)
Gough Whitlam (1972)

 Malcolm Fraser (1975)

Robert Hawke (1983)
Paul Keating (1991)
John Howard (1996)
Kevin Rudd (2007)

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