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  • SlowTV: Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Rudd | Climate change | Politics | Sydney
    Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd
    Part 1 | Part 2 "It is time to remove any polite veneer from this debate... The overwhelming need for Australia to tackle the great challenge of our generation is being frustrated by the do-nothing climate change sceptics". In his major speech to the Lowy Institute, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd... » play video
  • Climate change denialism and the challenges ahead. Kevin Rudd (p2)
    Part 1 | Part 2 "It is time to remove any polite veneer from this debate... The overwhelming need for Australia to tackle the great challenge of our generation is being frustrated by the do-nothing climate change sceptics". In his major speech to the Lowy Institute, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd... » play video
  • The Global Financial Crisis

    Kevin Rudd | February 2009 | The Monthly Essays | Politics
    There is a sense that we are now living through just such a time: barely a decade into the new millennium, barely 20 years since the end of the Cold War and barely 30 years since the triumph of neo-liberalism - that particular brand of free-market fundamentalism, extreme capitalism and excessive...
  • SlowTV: National Apology to the Stolen Generations by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Rudd | Canberra | Indigenous | Politics | Public event | Stolen Generations | Video
    National Apology to the Stolen Generations by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
    The full speech of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, apologising on behalf of the Federal Government to the Stolen Generations. Feb 13, Canberra.... » play video
  • Howard’s Brutopia: The battle of ideas in Australian politics

    Kevin Rudd | The Monthly Essays | Politics | November 2006
    Yet the culture war is essentially a cover for the real battle of ideas in Australian politics today: the battle between free-market fundamentalism and the social-democratic belief that individual reward can be balanced with social responsibility. Howard's culture war is in large part an...
  • Faith in Politics

    Kevin Rudd | The Monthly Essays | Politics | October 2006
    Three weeks before the end of World War II, Bonhoeffer was hanged by the SS because of his complicity in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This year marks the centenary of his birth. This essay seeks both to honour Bonhoeffer and to examine what his life, example and writings might have to say...