Why do people hate Kevin Rudd?
Kevin Rudd in his electorate during the 2011 Brisbane floods.
Why is he so unpopular? The people in his electorate loved him, he brought the Labor Party to government, and still has 166 million followers on Twitter. So what did he do to be so disliked?
Yep.
Playing petty party politics on a global stage is pathetic.
Geo, I stand by everything I have said Rudd should not have been nominated and I am glad he was not.
It is not a Labor/Liberal thing on my part at all.
In my opinion he is not suited...period! And to nominate someone just because we can is quite stupid (in my opinion).
My final word on this...waste of time going on and on about something that is done and dusted.
Pepe, I simply don't believe you. Just as with Malcolm rejecting him, your position is pure party politics.
Have you ever said anything positive about any Labor person?
Radish
As far as I can see Banjo first mentioned the UN job and you were next.
Kevin 07 has finally made his move re the Secretary General job...always denied he wanted it...everyone knew he did LOL.
Now he wants the backing of government in his bid.
Dr Anthony Billingsley, a lecturer in international studies at the University of New South Wales, strongly disagrees.
"I would be stunned if (Kevin Rudd) even got on to some sort of shortlist," he said.
"I just don't think that he has done enough internationally, plus he has, with some determination, offended the Chinese to a point and I think that that would be probably enough to make it very clear that he's not welcome."
Dr Billingsley said it would be fantastic if a woman took the job.
"Women should be represented at all levels, and I suppose that's all there is to it," he said.
"But I think on balance it would be really good to have a woman in that position.
"We'll see as it gets closer, we'll start to see some real names emerging from the pack."
For a waste of time you have had a bit to say and I have responded to your posts. The post above by you was over a week ago.
Frank, yes I well recall the pink batts episode.
Rudd at the Royal Commission dumped it on Garrett and Mark Abib.
Re Julia...I was not aware at how huge the amount was until I came across this. Probably even larger now as this is a couple of years old.
"To date Australia’s combined contribution to Julia Gillard's particular favourite, the Global Partnership Education Fund, has reached a staggering $A480.8 million. The GPEF was known as the Fast Track Initiative when Gillard first diverted Australian dollars its way.
Given her open-handed generosity in disbursing taxpayers’ money toward the GPEF, it’s not surprising she was rewarded with the chairmanship of the New York-based fund in 2012 and was reappointed last December for a further three-year term."
Agree...we have not heard the last of Rudd...his ego will ensure he will be front and centre somewhere on the world stage.
Typical post from a Lib lover. Condemning education.
As for Rudd's ego, name a politician without one.
Yes Rad, shows how wealthy we were during the Gillard era, when we could borrow anther $500m to build schools in Indonesia. I wonder where that money went? I wonder if anyone has inspected the schools? I wonder if the Indonesian educational standard dropped as it did in Australia when we built all those school halls? I'm really pleased Shorten didnt get a chance to run the country like a union. Speaking of which, I wonder how the HSU Victorian branch is going? Where are the union members fees flowing to now?
Reported that post for being off-topic.
Agree Frank and Pepe
The politicians scatter the Taxper money like fairy dust around the world lining their future nests.both Rudd and Gillard were guilty of this ... borrowing money to gift elsewhere that will take Australia decades to pay off. If at least they had spent it on our Third World infrastructure.
Frank is usually off topic and sometimes on another planet. Reportig achieves little Barak when done too often.
That's ok geomac, I dont understand much of your stuff either.
Back to Kevin Rudd. Tomorrow the RBA will review its monetary policy and some believe a tightening is quite possible. Now let me see if I can tie this into a Rudd correlation for the benefit of the everso vigilant grammar police. lol
Many retirees would be hurting a little with the rates dropping, especially those who are risk averse. But they were hurting more when Kevin Rudd made a captain's call and increased the LoLR bank guarantee on deposits. This forced a panic. I am still unhappy with Malcolm Turnbull's goading of an inexperienced Kevin Rudd over this issue. Naturaly, investors saw Rudd's action (backed by Ken Henry) as a sign of a much deeper problem, so it caused a run on redemptions from high income yielding listed and unlisted trusts. Turnbull should have known better. Henry should not have been involved in such a decision either. I thought he acted on emotion. Not the sort of behaviour you would want from the RBA Governor. It is interesting that Henry has always been a huge supporter of Rudd's. So it's fair to say that Rudd is not without his admirers. Even those who wanted him out of the Labor Party would write a glowing recomendation for his UN job.
From memory Rudd was going to start a bank with our now CEO of Australia Post which he has ran into ground, hence the involvement of Ken Henry.
Radish
" So Tony Abbott would be OK if Labor were in power and he wanted the UN job??? "
Yes and like Rudd he would just be another nomination for the UN to consider. I thought my view on this was quite clear. Australia backing an Australian. Rudd would have been an outside chance amongst 8 or 9 candidates and all the govt needed to do was endorse Rudd. Having done that the process was up to the UN not the govt.
Petty action by petty people.