Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd
Party	Australian Labor Party
Prime Minister
From	24 November 2007
To
Succeeded	John Howard
Preceded	—
Labor Party leader
From	2007
To
Succeeded	Kim Beazley
Preceded	—

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)