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NEWS ABOUT: Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd stories: 28 news summaries

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 Aussies Stop 'Asylum Boat' 

60 suspected asylum-seekers to be sent to Christmas Island detention center

Sep 16, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Australian navy stopped a vessel carrying 58 suspected asylum-seekers off the country's northwest coast today, the BBC reports. It was the fourth such boat stopped in the area in under a week. The passengers will be sent to a detention center on Christmas Island, 1,600 miles west of... More »

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Australia • illegal immigration • asylum • Kevin Rudd • smuggling

 Aussies Sorry for 10K Kids 
 Shipped for 'Slave Labor' 

British children were abused, kept hungry in program lasting until 1960s

Aug 31, 09 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Australian prime minister will apologize to generations of British migrants shipped to Australia as children and subjected to abuse, hunger, and slave labor. Between the 1920s and 1960s the UK sent about 10,000 children to provide Australia with "good white stock," but when they arrived they... More »

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Australia • slave labor • sexual abuse • abuse • orphan • Kevin Rudd

Australia
Grieves for
Sam the Koala

Rescued animal was symbol of strength after devastating wildfires

Aug 6, 09 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The koala bear that became a symbol of hope after Australia's devastating wildfires earlier this year died before surgery today, the Melbourne Herald-Sun reports. Sam was saved by a firefighter who found her moving through the scorched landscape on badly burnt paws, and her image was broadcast around the world.... More »

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Australia • wildfires • Kevin Rudd • koala • Victoria • David Tree

(Newser) - Australian officials are debating how to cull more than 1 million camels currently munching across the outback and irritating Aboriginals, the Independent reports. Some experts support an aerial shoot to save the desert ecosystem, but say it must be thorough; killing 80,000 would only match their birth rate. Estimated... More »

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Australia • camel • Kevin Rudd • Aboriginal

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Britney, Ellen Alive but Hacked 

Also: Is Megan Fox dating co-star?

Jun 29, 09 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Never fear: Britney Spears is alive. A post from her Twitter account claiming she had died is false, the AP reports, a result of the hacking of her Twitpic account.  Ellen DeGeneres’ account with Twitpic—a program not owned by Twitter—was also hacked. Elsewhere:
  • Rumors continue to
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entertainment • Britney Spears • Shia LaBeouf • celebrity • Kevin Rudd • Ellen DeGeneres • Madonna • hoax • hacking • Sacha Baron Cohen • Twitter • Megan Fox • Bruno • Mercy James • Twitpic

(Newser) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is refusing to resign in the first major crisis of his 19 months in office, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Dubbed "Utegate"—after a popular SUV—the scandal centers on whether Rudd gave special treatment to a friend's car dealership. Critics say Rudd... More »

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Australia • email • prime minister • Kevin Rudd • car dealers • political scandal

 Aussies Mourn Fire Victims 

Fires bared worst of nature, best of humanity, says prime minister

Feb 22, 09 7:45 AM CST
(Newser) - As bells tolled, mourners throughout Australia prayed at services today for the 209 people killed in wildfires and those still missing, CNN reports. “House is gone, friends are gone. This is total destruction,” said one resident. Rescue teams continue to search through the devastation as firefighters still battled... More »

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Australia • wildfires • Kevin Rudd • disaster • mourning

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 Aussie Toll Hits 171; 
 PM Cites 'Mass Murder' 

Small town declared crime scene as devastation continues

Feb 9, 09 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The death toll from angry bushfires in Australia jumped to 171 today, reports Reuters, as the country's prime minister, fighting back tears, accused suspected arsonists of "mass murder." Up to 5,000 people have been left homeless; at one relief center, boards covered with Post-It notes beg for... More »

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Australia • wildfires • arson • Kevin Rudd • disaster

 108 Dead in Aussie Fires 

Blazes destroy entire towns, continue to burn

Feb 8, 09 7:50 PM CST
(Newser) - More than 100 people are confirmed dead in the wildfires that have savaged southeast Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Entire towns have been wiped out, leaving gutted buildings and scorched cars. "There might only be 15 or 20 houses left in Marysville," a resident said. "There's... More »

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Australia • wildfires • arson • Kevin Rudd

To Avoid Recession, Cheer Up: Aussie Pol

Finance minister pushes power of the positive

Nov 12, 08 3:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Australia's finance minister apparently didn't see what happened to Phil Gramm  last summer when he declared that the US economic slowdown was "mental" and called Americans a "nation of whiners."  The recession would disappear, said Ken Henry, if Australians would  just buck up, Australia’s News... More »

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Australia • economic growth • consumer confidence • unemployment • Kevin Rudd • job creation • Treasury secretary • financial crisis • Ken Henry

Aussie PM
Gains Cachet From Thieving Ancestors

Preteen convict adorns Rudd's family tree

Jul 31, 08 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Australia’s history as a penal colony is no laughing matter, but some Aussies have come to appreciate, and even relish, their hardscrabble beginnings. Case in point: PM Kevin Rudd, whose family tree includes ancestors convicted of stealing sugar (in 1801) and underwear (in 1788). The release of some details... More »

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Australia • convict • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Kevin Rudd • genealogy • penal colony • ancestry

Australia Spirits Away
Torch Ahead of Relay

Protesters do their thing anyway

Apr 23, 08 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Olympic torch arrived Down Under today, but was immediately whisked off to a secret location to avoid protesters, the AP reports. Tomorrow’s torch relay in Canberra will be open to the public—unlike those in Jakarta and New Delhi—but the route will be lined with yard-high fences... More »

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China • Australia • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Sydney • Kevin Rudd • Olympic torch • Olympic protests • torch relay

 WWII Ship Found After 66 Years 

Legendary HMAS Sydney sank in battle with German raider

Mar 17, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A legendary Australian war ship sunk in the Indian Ocean by a German raider during World War II has been found nearly intact after 66 years, the Australian PM confirmed today. The HMAS Sydney sank after a 30-minute battle with the Kormoran in Australia's greatest tragedy at sea. The wreckage... More »

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Australia • Germany • shipwreck • sailor • Indian Ocean • history • World War II • Kevin Rudd • sonar • discovery

Aussies Face Protests Over Kangaroo Cull

Pro-whaling Japan pounces on neighbor's seeming hypocrisy

Mar 17, 08 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australia is planning to cull 400 kangaroos on a military base, and Japan—oft-criticized by Australia for its whaling practices—is jumping at the opportunity to hail its neighbor as hypocritical, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Not so, says Australia’s PM. The whaling issue is subject to "... More »

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whale • hypocrisy • Kevin Rudd • whaling • Japanese whale hunt • kangaroo • kangaroo hunt • cull • hypocritical • Canberra • protesters

Australian PM Pledges Support for East Timor

Rudd visits capital, president wounded in attacks by rebel soldiers

Feb 15, 08 6:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd jetted to East Timor today, vowing to stand by its neighbor after attacks Monday on its president and prime minister, Reuters reports. "It's by the ballot box, and not by the barrel of a gun, that the decisions for our countries will be made,... More »

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Australia • East Timor • Asia • violence • Kevin Rudd • assassination attempt • Jose Ramos-Horta • Alfredo Reinado • Xanana Gusmao

Aussie PM Apologizes for Aborigine Child Abductions

Country watches and cheers as 'Sorry Day' apology to Aborigines is made

Feb 13, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Australia's new prime minister made a formal apology to the Aborigines today for "stolen generations" of children the government had taken from their homes. Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were placed in orphanages or foster homes in a century-long program of forced assimilation. Throngs watched on big screens... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • Kevin Rudd • stolen generations

Australia to Apologize to Aborigines for Stolen Kids

Children were abducted to 'assimilate' them

Jan 31, 08 3:47 AM CST
(Newser) - More than 100,000 Aborigine children were abducted from their parents and placed in  Australian orphanages and foster homes in a century-long campaign to assimilate them into European culture. Now new Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for the abductions, carried out between 1869 and 1969, reports the Times... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • Queensland • Kevin Rudd • New South Wales • stolen generations • Gamilaroi • Rabbit Proof Fence

OPINION

2007: Asia's Banner Year

Bloomberg praises those who fuel the region's return to economic power

Dec 24, 07 2:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Asia's economies are soaring so mightily that Bloomberg columnist William Pesek is passing out awards for Asia's big players in 2007. They range from a “Money Talks” prize, for Arab and Asian leaders who bailed out Wall Street banks, to the “Howard's End” trophy, for Australian PM Kevin... More »

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Australia • India • Thailand • Asia • subprime mortgages • US economy • Chinese economy • Kevin Rudd

Japan Backs Down on Whaling

Australian pressure leads Tokyo to call off humpback hunt

Dec 21, 07 7:35 AM CST
(Newser) - In its first-ever turnaround on whaling, the Japanese government has dropped its plans to hunt humpbacks. The about-face is a victory for Kevin Rudd, the new Australian prime minister, who had objected strenuously and ordered a patrol of the humpback hunt. Tokyo said, however, that the fleet currently en route... More »

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Australia • Japan • whale • humpback whale • Kevin Rudd • whaling

Australia PM 'Disgusted' by Rape Case

Nine males who had sex with 10-year-old
girl escape jail

Dec 11, 07 8:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Nine men and teens in Australia who raped a 10-year-old girl from a remote Aboriginal community have gone free, a verdict that has caused an uproar in the nation. Six of those who pleaded guilty were under 17 and got probation; the others got suspended sentences. New PM Kevin Rudd... More »

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Australia • rape • Kevin Rudd

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