Kevin Rudd
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
Tony Abbott and Jim Chalmers, an unlikely pair of saviours for the Liberal Party
Tony Abbott, the most effective opposition politician Australia has ever seen, is about to become Liberal Party president. Labor’s Jim Chalmers is the Liberals’ other great asset.
- George Brandis
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- Opinion
- Opinion
What next for Rudd? He’s steeling himself for his grandest ambition
Kevin Rudd has been so right about many of the great matters of our time. His tragedy is that he alienated some of the very people he most needed to fulfil his ambitions.
- Peter Hartcher
- Exclusive
- Foreign relations
What really happened after Trump told Rudd ‘I don’t like you either’
The former prime minister says his access to senior administration figures only improved after his awkward televised encounter with the US president in the Oval Office.
- Michael Koziol and Peter Hartcher
- Exclusive
- Foreign relations
Kevin Rudd lifts lid on AUKUS, China and Trump-era tensions
In his first interview since leaving his role, former Australian ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd has opened up about AUKUS tensions, China’s growing power and diplomacy under Donald Trump.
- Peter Hartcher and Michael Koziol
First Qantas, now Coles: the star corporate lawyer beating her one-time clients
Kevin Rudd implied that Gina Cass-Gottlieb would be a patsy for the corporate world she had represented as a lawyer when she came to the ACCC. The accusation hasn’t held up.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- Government debt
By promising to fix Victoria’s budget, Jess Wilson has put a big target on her back
Debt reduction is an idea so 1990s it could have been lifted from an episode of Melrose Place. Can Jess Wilson get Victorians excited about balancing the books?
- Chip Le Grand
‘Kevin, what the hell was that?’ Why Rudd thinks Trump will stand by Taiwan
In some of his first public remarks since leaving his post as ambassador to the US, former PM Kevin Rudd recounted a telling interaction with his Chinese counterpart in 2024.
- Michael Koziol
- Exit interview
- Australian TV
‘We had death threats’: Looking back at the ABC’s most controversial comedy show
When The Chaser’s War on Everything premiered 20 years ago, it soon became the ABC’s most complained about show.
- Louise Rugendyke
- Political Sketch
- Political leadership
Taylor versus Ley, the sequel, shapes up as a box-office bomb
Far from the audience-thrilling rituals of political leadership challenges, this one started out as a flop.
- Tony Wright
- Updated
- Epstein fallout
‘Under pressure’: UK politician sent Epstein details of Australian mining tax
Peter Mandelson, a former cabinet minister now facing calls for a police inquiry into his ties to the sex offender, forwarded private documents with his view that pressure needed “to be maintained” over Kevin Rudd’s doomed tax plan.
- David Crowe