Kevin Rudd is a former foreign minister and prime minister of Australia. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs before serving in the Australian embassies in Stockholm and Beijing. He later returned to Queensland to work as private secretary to premier Wayne Goss when state Labor had been in opposition for thirty-two years. He then became chief of staff to the premier before being appointed director general of the Cabinet Office. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1998 before becoming leader of the Opposition in 2006. Since leaving office in 2013, he has served as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and president of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. He also serves as Chair of three not-for-profits: the International Peace Institute, Sanitation and Water for All, and the National Apology Foundation. Kevin Rudd joined the Labor Party forty years ago and in 2019 joined Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke as a national life member of the party.
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The Case for Courage
Kevin Rudd
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The Case for Courage
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Book launch | Monash University Low FODMAP: The Cookbook (Invitation Only)
Monash University Caulfield
Monash Art, Design and Architecture Exhibition Space,, Caulfield
120 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes developed by the founders of the FODMAP diet This is the perfect cooking companion to better manage symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Offering 120...
Book Launch: The Uncertainty Effect by Michelle Lazarus
Matheson Library
Monash University, Clayton, VIC
To be launched by Professor Sharon Pickering A smart, practical book that shows us how to navigate uncertain times In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we...
Bendigo Writers Festival featuring Simon Holmes à Court, Cathy McGowan and Richard Denniss
The Capital
50 View Street, Bendigo, VIC
Be sure to catch our featured authors at the Bendigo Writers Festival 2023.
Brisbane Writers Festival featuring Tony Wellington, Ian Lowe, Mary Ryllis Clark, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang
State Library of Queensland
Cultural Precinct, Stanley Pl, South Brisbane, QLD
Be sure to catch our featured authors at the 2023 Brisbane Writers Festival. See the full program for details.
Justice in Kelly Country book talk by Lachlan Strahan (National Trust Australian Heritage Festival Event, Glenroy)
Glenroy Community Hub Library
50 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy, VIC
Partway through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening to shoot him ‘like a dog’. Two days after Anthony reputedly made his threat, Ned and...
Book launch | Monash University Low FODMAP: The Cookbook (Invitation Only)
Monash University Caulfield Monash Art, Design and Architecture Exhibition Space,, Caulfield120 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes developed by the founders of the FODMAP diet This is the perfect cooking companion to better manage symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Offering 120...
Book Launch: The Uncertainty Effect by Michelle Lazarus
Matheson Library Monash University, Clayton, VICTo be launched by Professor Sharon Pickering A smart, practical book that shows us how to navigate uncertain times In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we...
Bendigo Writers Festival featuring Simon Holmes à Court, Cathy McGowan and Richard Denniss
The Capital 50 View Street, Bendigo, VICBe sure to catch our featured authors at the Bendigo Writers Festival 2023.
Brisbane Writers Festival featuring Tony Wellington, Ian Lowe, Mary Ryllis Clark, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang
State Library of Queensland Cultural Precinct, Stanley Pl, South Brisbane, QLDBe sure to catch our featured authors at the 2023 Brisbane Writers Festival. See the full program for details.
Justice in Kelly Country book talk by Lachlan Strahan (National Trust Australian Heritage Festival Event, Glenroy)
Glenroy Community Hub Library 50 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy, VICPartway through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening to shoot him ‘like a dog’. Two days after Anthony reputedly made his threat, Ned and...
