Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd is an Australian politician and he was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia. Kevin Michael Rudd was born on 21 September 1957 in Queensland to Albert Rudd and Margaret nee De Veer. His father was a share farmer. He grew up on a dairy farm. In this farm life he got opportunity to learn horse riding and gun shooting. When he was 11, his father died. After his father’s death his family was forced to leave the farm because of financial difficulty. In 1981 Kevin Rudd married Therese Rein and

Life is composed of dreams, elaborate to simplistic. Many people go after them with no hesitation, others are not as eager. Fear and doubt can lead most to not accomplish dreams or goals. Those who achieve their dreams put in copious amounts of work much like sixteen year old Jessica Watson. She documented her journey around the world, in True Spirit, to show herself and everyone else that anything can be accomplished with hard work and effort. Her voyage was not just rainbows and sunshine; she had

Martin Luther King wrote the following in a campus newspaper, the Maroon Tiger 1947, “It seems to me that education has a two-fold function in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture” (King, 1947). This essay will analyse via the sociological imagination, ‘whose interests does schooling serve and why?’ In addressing this question, one needs to discuss why is an education so valued in Australia today. Education has had three phases of development according, to

result of increasing number of politicians using this global platform to their maximum advantage. Referred to as the “Facebook election” the 2008 US presidential election, and the lesser-known 2007 election campaign of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, dubbed 'Kevin 07 ', set a precedent as to how one could use the dynamic and ever-growing platform of social media to their electoral advantage. It is pertinent to note that Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook, was among Barack Obama 's key

1) Identify and describe the influences and discourses surrounding the development of each curriculum statement. • Australia – the Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2014) and EYLF (DEEWR, 2009) In 2008, Australia saw its educational framework altered and transformed by the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (MCEETYA, 2008). With its two underpinning goals (MCEETYA, 2008): 1) “Australian schooling promotes equity and excellence” and 2) “All young Australians become successful

Introduction Australia’s national security landscape has changed significantly throughout its history, especially through the Howard, Rudd and Gillard years when fuelled by globalisation, terrorism and widespread economic turmoil. However, despite the varying nature of the threat landscape over the past century Australia has not until recently documented a combined, singular, national approach to national security policy. Both the 2008 National Security Statement and the 2013 Australian National

“My name is Bruce,” he said, into the digital recorder that I’d placed on the bench between us. “I’m being interviewed in relation to my work on Christmas Island, and my experience with the movement of refugees from the Middle East and parts of Asia, via Indonesia, into Australia. Illegally.” It was a crisp afternoon in October at Battery Park in New York City. We sat by the water, talking over takeaway cappuccinos from a nearby Italian café. Sunday tourists streamed past us, chatting excitedly

We, as a country, have apologized, however a statement of regret can't fix the wrong that was finished. Or maybe, a statement of regret is an assertion of sense of duty regarding guarantee that the errors of the past never reemerge. Unfortunately, these are unfilled words if there are no activities to back them up; more terrible yet, in the event that our activities as a country repudiate what we say. The 2013 government race focussed vigorously on the issue of refuge searchers, specifically the

The author of the source was Kevin Rudd, the 26th Australian prime minister (2007-2010 and 2013) and the writer of this source. He began his political career in 1998 when elected into the House of Representatives for Griffith and was the minister of foreign affairs twice. Kevin Rudd was a progressive political leader, is a Christian and social conservative. His perspectives would have meant that he believed in the rights and freedoms of all Australians. The source was created in early 2008 and delivered

Kevin Rudd’s “Sorry speech” Kevin Rudd is an Australian politician, he was Australia’s prime minister from 2007-2010, and he was also the leader of ”The Australian Labor Party”. Kevin Rudd made an apology speech from the Parliament House in Canberra to “the stolen generation”, the speech was spoken on February 13 2008. The speech is to the all indigenous people and especially those who suffered, the survivors of “The Stolen Generation” or have had relatives or friends who did, Kevin Rudd apologises