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    Kevin Rudd
    is a former prime minister of Australia.

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    Opinion October 31, 2020

    After the virus: A green recovery

    “Australia cannot afford to simply meander through to the other side of this Covid-19 crisis … If the government had the capacity to see this moment for what it is, it would find a vast majority of the country, across the political spectrum, supportive …”

    Opinion August 31, 2019

    Defining Australia’s national identity

    “Political drift doesn’t offer any substantive response to the ‘great disruptions’ now bearing down on us. It just capitulates to them. That’s why it’s now urgent to re-engineer our national imagination and paint the picture of a different future …”

    Opinion April 11, 2020

    Australia must fulfil its regional obligations

    “Earlier this year, I wrote that I feared the situation in China would become the reality across the rest of the world in March and April. That, unfortunately, is now what is unfolding before our very eyes. But if there is to be a third wave of this crisis, …”



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