Kevin Rudd

Australian PM back from Washington for local Mayors Summit

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd returned to Canberra on Monday, after attending the G20 summit in Washington, just for the inaugural Australian Council of Local Government at Parliament House to be opened on Tuesday. More...

Rudd to tour storm-damaged Brisbane (AAP)

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has had his flight diverted so he can tour storm-damaged areas of Brisbane on his way home from the United States. The biggest storm in two decades left one man dead and the city a natural disaster...

Summit gets mixed grades

This weekend's Washington summit on tackling the world financial crisis did little to dent a looming economic slowdown but offered developing countries such as China and India an important larger role, European and Asian...

Australians could ditch Queen: Irish Independent (Nov 12) - Bonnie Malkin

By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney Wednesday November 12 2008 Australia could vote within two years on whether the country should drop Queen Elizabeth as head of state and become a republic. Senator Bob Brown, of the Green Party, has...

Rudd left out of Bush snaps

FIRST there was the cool personal reception -- now Kevin Rudd has been left out of the official White House photograph album. Snaps on the White House website show George W Bush greeting 17 world leaders at the weekend G20...

PM to announce $300m for projects

THE Rudd Government will pump $300 million into local infrastructure projects to breathe new life into regional cities and country towns — just as the nation's biggest trading partner, Japan, slips into recession. Prime...

Leaders don't have a clue

WELL, that's all right then. Our biggest state NSW has been in recession since at least mid-year and indeed its recession is getting worse. The rest of Australia taken as a whole was not in recession, is not in recession, and...

Cash register bells not jingling

Clinton Porteous and John McCarthy THE danger of Australia slipping into recession has increased dramatically with worse-than-expected retail sales leading up to Christmas. Data released yesterday showed Australian consumers...

Fuel still fires up motorists

A NEW poll has revealed that motorists are venting their anger at the Federal Government over petrol prices - even though the price of fuel is plunging. An exclusive Courier-Mail/Galaxy poll shows 60 per cent of Australians are...

Chinese, Australian leaders vow to expand co-op

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday pledged joint efforts to expand bilateral cooperation at their meeting here. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G20) summit on...

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