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“... personality disorder). Politics is one; sport is another. A recent political example is Kevin Rudd, the two-time Australian prime minister, a man with a toxic personality and enormous political gifts. The Australian Labor Party saw that Rudd, who has always been popular with the public, was their route back ...”

“... Labor. Just as Blairism took over so much of Thatcherism, so the new Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, has been striving to appear even more moderate, business-oriented and pro-American than Howard. Despairing media critics baptised it ‘Me-tooism’, and the result was a campaign setting new standards of witless boredom. Four days before the ...”

“... seemed likely long before the country had any sense of the opposition’s spending projections. Kevin Rudd and his campaigners were sure they could see the spending gap. They stuck in a finger and tried to create a gaping hole. But when they proclaimed a $10 billion shortfall in Tony Abbott’s budget plans, two senior figures at the Treasury and the ...”

“... faction, openly plotting revenge. Before Turnbull and Abbott, the Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard had repeatedly moved through the revolving doors of leadership, deposing each other with increasing bitterness. And on top of this, since mid-2017 Australian politics has been convulsed by a series of scandals related to Section ...”

“... From 2019, study of these various branches of official ideology became mandatory in the party. Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia and now Australian ambassador to the US, is one of relatively few China analysts in the West to have met Xi in person. In The Avoidable War (2022) he argued that the US and China could limit their competition to ...”

“... had only been in power for three years, and in a fit of panic had just dumped an unpopular PM (Kevin Rudd) for what they hoped was a more voter-friendly one. Julia Gillard called an election after only three weeks in office. Had she been unable to cling on she would have been one of the shortest-lived prime ministers in Australian history. She and her ...”

“... Irresolvable in old left-right terms, conflicts seek an alternative in other terms. While Kevin Rudd tries to reform Australian identity, and the country’s place in relation to an altered South-East Asia, Brown wants to salvage a moribund British identity, and conserve the Cold War North Atlantic relationship. The substratum is also ...”