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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 94. Chapters: Australian republicans, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Thomas Keneally, Steve Bracks, Republicanism in Australia, Republic Advisory Committee, Ron Barassi, Eddie McGuire, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Billy Thorpe, Andrew Johns, Malcolm Turnbull, George Winterton, Australian republic referendum, 1999, Richard Butler, Process model, John George Gough, Geoffrey Robertson, Barry Jones, Cheryl Kernot, Christopher Pyne, Joe Hockey, Ray Martin, Bryan Brown, John Newcombe, Wendy Machin, Andrew Gaze, Frederick Vosper, Daniel Deniehy, Kevin Scarce, Lucy Turnbull, Clem Jones, Peter FitzSimons, Constitutional Convention, Bi-partisan appointment republican model, Mikey Robins, Direct election republican model, Stuart Ayres, Australian Republican Movement, Charles Harpur, Lisa Singh, McGarvie Model, Copernican paradigm, Richard Fidler, Richard McGarvie, Greg Craven, Greg Barns, Harry Cooper, Steve Crowe. Excerpt: Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian politician. He was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010) and is currently the Minister for Foreign Affairs. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives since the 1998 federal election, representing Griffith, Queensland. Rudd was born in Queensland and grew up on a dairy farm. He joined the Australian Labor Party at the age of 15 and was dux of Nambour State High School in 1974. He studied an arts degree in Asian studies at the Australian National University, majoring in Chinese language and Chinese history. In 1981, he married Therese Rein and they have three children. He worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1981 and from 1988 he was Chief of Staff to the Queensland Labor Opposition Leader and later Premier, Wayne Goss. After the Goss government lost office in 1995, Rudd was hired a...
