His government introduced Australia's first ever nation-wide school curriculum. He legislated for the biggest school modernization program in Australian history with the construction of new state-of-the art libraries, classrooms and multi-purpose facilities for every Australian primary school.
To overcome the digital divide, he provided lap top computers for every year secondary school student. On health, Mr. Rudd in negotiated with the Australian states a National Health and Hospitals Reform Agreement, the biggest reform and investment in the health system in 30 years.
In defiance of Big Tobacco, his government introduced the world's first plain-packaging regime for all tobacco products. To improve the rate of organ and tissue donation, he established Australia's first National Organ and Tissue Transplant Authority. In , his government introduced Australia's first ever paid parental leave scheme.
He also established Australia's first ever dedicated Australian Children's Network. Rudd remains engaged in a range of international challenges including global economic management, the rise of China, climate change and sustainable development. His career has been been tied to the Australian Labor Party ever since he joined as an idealistic year-old in , and has been characterised by determination, an incredible capacity for hard work, and an iron-clad belief in himself. These qualities saw him ride a wave of popular opinion and anti-Howard sentiment to a landslide victory in , but also sowed the seeds for the tumultuous events that would overshadow his time in politics.
After stints as a diplomat and consultant in China, and a period working alongside future treasurer Wayne Swan as a senior official in the Queensland Goss government, Mr Rudd first ran for the Federal seat of Griffith in He was unsuccessful, but two years later he secured the seat, and has remained as a popular local member since.
In he successfully challenged Kim Beazely for leadership of the Labor party, which at the time was reeling for a series of electoral defeats at the hands of John Howard. Despite his long association with the ALP, Mr Rudd has always remained something of an outsider, and never gained the loyalty of the factions that form the DNA of the Labor party. This outsider status was on display during the Kevin07 campaign, where he campaigned heavily on his own image - summed up with the line 'I'm Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help'.
It was this campaign that saw the first emergence of his love affair with the Australian people, a relationship that has confounded pundits and frustrated rivals on both sides of politics. On the back of 11 years in power, and facing a smiling Kevin Rudd, mobbed by crowds jostling wherever he went, John Howard didn't stand a chance, and the groundswell of public support saw him lose his seat - the first prime minister to do so since Stanley Bruce in Mr Rudd began his term with his trademark zeal and drive, and early achievements included the apology to the Stolen Generations, ratifying the Kyoto protocol, and successfully navigating the Global Financial Crisis.
But the popularity that helped propel to to the top job never translated to within the party, and when it began to ebb it left him vulnerable to attack. From within the party reports emerged of growing dysfunction and a lack of coherence and focus in policy. His office was accused of micromanaging ministers - or excluding them from decision-making altogether — and Mr Rudd himself had a reputation for bursts of anger and brusqueness.
It is a reputation that stayed with Mr Rudd from his time in Queensland politics, and with the failure of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and a sustained attack against Mr Rudd's proposed mining tax , his personal approval rating began to slide. The ascension of Tony Abbott to opposition leader, resulting in the collapse of bi-partisan support for the emissions trading scheme, and Mr Rudd's decision not to go to an election on the issue saw growing speculation he would be replaced.
Mr Abbott also aggressively and successfully attacked the prime minister over the government's handling of the insulation scheme, and the Building the Education Revolution infrastructure program. And on June 23, , after reports emerged of his youthful chief of staff canvassing levels of support within the party, then deputy prime minister Julia Gillard publicly requested Mr Rudd hold a leadership ballot.
However after realising he would not have the support to win the ballot Mr Rudd stood down as prime minister and Labor leader. It was this event that would set the tone for the next three years of politics, and the re-emergence of an old term in Australian vernacular - the faceless men. But no-one could anticipate the depth of his desire to return to the office of Prime Minister, and he remained in Parliament on the back bench.
In the campaign, Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard posed for a photo opportunity in Brisbane intended to show the pair working together, however the campaign was riven by leaks that many placed at the feet of Mr Rudd or his supporters within the party. On climate change, Mr. Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol in and legislated in for a 20 percent mandatory renewable energy target for Australia.
He represented Australia at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit which produced the Copenhagen Accord, for the first time committing states to not allow temperature increases beyond two degrees.
This report was the first to recommend the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Domestically, Mr. In health, Mr. Rudd in negotiated with the Australian states a National Health and Hospitals Reform Agreement, the biggest reform and investment in the health system since the introduction of Medicare 30 years before. He also founded the National Broadband Network to deliver high-speed broadband for every household, business, school, hospital, and GP in the country.
In this capacity he chaired an international panel which produced an ASPI report entitled on the development of long-term security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, entitled Preserving the Long Peace in Asia. Rudd released a series of speeches, articles, and essays from in the collection, The Avoidable War: The Decade of Living Dangerously. This volume works to help make sense of where the U. Rudd remains a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School.
In his IPI capacity, Mr. Rudd in chaired a two-year-long Independent Commission on Multilateralism, which produced a comprehensive report on reforming the UN system entitled UN Rebuilding Order in a Fragmenting World. Rudd is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. Rudd in his private capacity has established the Australian National Apology Foundation to continue to promote reconciliation and closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
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