What changes did Kevin Rudd make?

Answer 1

Kevin Rudd was elected into office by the Australian public.

Rudd was elected on a mandate to take action on climate change, bridge the Indigenous divide by firstly apologising and then improving the dire situation in remote Aboriginal communities, his promise to abolish WorkChoices, IR laws, an 'education revolution' and because John Howard was proving quite unpopular at this time.

At the time Kevin Rudd's character, as well as his policies, were not placed under intense media-scrutiny. In fact, many commentators refer to this phenomena, where a politician remains unattacked for a certain amount of time while in office, as the 'honeymoon phase'. You would happliy know what one such policy is obvious in the sense that he is creating future voters for his stay in parliment. Which one? The one laptop per child policy, which, in reality is only supplied to students in year nine. Fustratingly enough, most other students will just have to settle for a pat on the back.

It is now obvious that Kevin Rudd's only policy is to grasp onto power. The mandate on which he was elected has now been flushed down the toilet, along with over $52 billion in stimulus packages. He made an apology, but has taken no phyisical action. He signed Kyoto, but then set a 5-15% reduction target. He abolished WorkChoices (IR Laws) and replaced them with a union heavy system. Any action he takes on education, he now parades as being part of an 'education revolution' but the extent of such actions is minimal; the most wasteful and overbudget being the promise that every student will have a laptop. A promise that the Labor government, with the Labor States, bungled.

Over time Kevin Rudd has revealed himself to be an illusive character of little substance. For all his rhetoric and symbolism, very little has been done.

He sees himself as an intellectual, as seen by his unsubstantiated and ridiculous blaming of the financial crisis on 'neo-liberalism' and 'extreme-capitalism' in an attempt to connect with his voters and galvanise blame amongst the left towards the right. (Though it was the Democrats who voted and carried through the US Senate legislation permitting and encouring NINJA (no income, no job or asset) loans to help those of lower socio-economical status.)

It's apparent then, that again, Kevin Rudd's only policy is power and his time in power characterised by his feeble attempt to maintain it.

Answer 2

what jobs has Kevin Rudd done? i really need to know from my government panphlet.

Answer 3

Kevin Rudd was Australia's Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010.

Answer 4

For being prime minister