- Kevin Rudd, The Age, December 14, 2006.

- Kevin Rudd, Australian Financial Review, February 2003.

- Kevin Rudd, Concerning AWB scandal, March 16, 2006.

- Cole Report, para 30.241.

- Kevin Rudd, Sydney Morning Herald, November 7, 2004.

30 out of 60 Labor House of Representative members failed to take an oath on the Bible in 2004, compared to only 1 of 87 Only one of 87 Coalition members. 

"We're the party of the socially progressive secular society and yet we gave some preferences to Family First that helped them get their first senator elected."

- Lindsay Tanner, Sunday, November 28, 2004.

- The West Australian, March 4, 2007.

A spokesman for Mr Rudd said he had only attended the dinner at the invitation of Mr Edwards: �Mr Rudd was unaware that clients of Mr Burke attended the dinner. He did not know they were invited to the dinner to meet him."

- The West Australian, March 4, 2007.

And Rudd has admitted to meeting with Burke on 2 other occasions, so his excuse rings hollow.

In any case, an emailed invitation from Mr Burke dated several days before the dinner contradicts Mr Rudd�s account. The email makes it clear Mr Rudd was the guest of honour. �Julian Grill and I would be delighted if you would be our guest at dinner with Kevin Rudd, the Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs in the Federal Parliament at 7pm on Monday August 1st at the Perugino Restaurant Cnr Murray and Outram Streets in West Perth."
  
Mr Rudd�s name is in bold type in the email, which went to a wide circle of Perth contacts and businessmen, 20 to 30 of whom attended.

Graham Edwards confirmed he had been keen to introduce Mr Rudd to Mr Burke because he was a �bright, young bloke� and it was important he got to know WA and its people: �I was pretty keen to push him (Mr Rudd) through a number of different areas in WA, to get him to know the State and to get people to know him.�

ALP leadership was certainly a topic of discussion given that a guest at the dinner told The Weekend Australian that the tone of a speech by Labor frontbencher, senator Mark Bishop, had been "vitriolic" about Labor leadership. Another guest at the dinner said Senator Bishop had warned Mr Rudd about destabilising the then leader. West Australian Labor backbencher Graham Edwards also told the meeting that Mr Rudd would be leader of the Labor Party. Mr Rudd was asked several questions about the leadership, including about his decision to withdraw from a contest against Mr Beazley. The businessman also told The Weekend Australian Mr Rudd's suggestion on Thursday that there was no discussion of the leadership was "bullshit" and guests at the dinner had treated the ban on Mr Burke by former WA premier Geoff Gallop as "a joke".

- The Weekend Australian, March 3, 2007.

On the morning of the dinner, Mr Rudd told ABC radio in Perth his response to leadership questions was that "of course" he still had a leadership "baton in the backpack".

Union heavyweight Kevin Reynolds refers to Mr Rudd�s contact with Mr Burke, despite then premier Geoff Gallop�s ban on ministers talking to Mr Burke: �Geoff dictates that people don�t talk to Brian, well, let me tell you his phone runs hot. I know for a fact that he met with Rudd the other day when he was here. That guy, he�s got...he�s a future leader of this country and he sees that there�s no problem meeting with Brian, talking with Brian.� 

- ABC�s Stateline, August 3, 2005, 2 days after the Rudd's dinner with Burke.

- Sunday, February 25, 2007.

- As reported by Glenn Milne, Herald Sun, March 4, 2007.

- Herald Sun, December 7, 2006. 

- Herald Sun, December 7, 2006.

"Let's be clear about Howard's reasons for war. In the legal opinion he tabled last March, the only reason canvassed was to eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. No humanitarian reason was advanced." 

- Kevin Rudd, The Australian, February 4, 2004.

"We�re talking about a regime that will gouge out the eyes of a child to force a confession from the child�s parents. This is a regime that will burn a person�s limbs in order to force a confession or compliance. This is a regime that in 2000 decreed the crime of criticising it would be punished by the amputation of tongues. Since Saddam Hussein�s regime came to power in 1979 he has attacked his neighbours and he�s ruthlessly oppressed ethnic and religious groups in Iraq - more than one million people have died in internal conflicts and wars. Some four million Iraqis have chosen exile. Two hundred thousand have disappeared from his jails never to be seen again. He has cruelly and cynically manipulated the United Nations oil-for-food programme. He�s rorted it to buy weapons to support his designs at the expense of the well-being of his people. Since the Gulf War the people of Iraq have not only endured a cruel and despotic regime but they�ve had to suffer economic deprivation, hunger and sickness.

And we should never forget that economic sanctions imposed have had a humanitarian cost. That cost has been made worse by Saddam Hussein�s rorting of the sanctions regime. Those sanctions could have been lifted years ago if Iraq had complied with the requirements of Security Council resolutions about disarmament.

- John Howard, National Press Club address, March 13, 2003---7 days before the Iraq invasion.

"I can�t recall Mr Howard ever admitting he�s made any mistakes on issues like taking our country to war on a lie."

- Kevin Rudd, Interview, March 4, 2007.

- Kevin Rudd, Hansard, September 17, 2002.

"There is no debate or dispute as to whether Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. He does."

- Kevin Rudd, Lateline, September 24, 2002.

Therefore, if, by Kevin's standard, Mr Howard is a liar, then Kevin Rudd  is also a liar by his own standard!

In any case, the Flood Enquiry into Australian intelligence agencies cleared the government of any wrong-doing, so Rudd's accusation of lying is itself a lie.

- Kevin Rudd, The Age, July 7, 2003.

"In mid�May 2003, an ISG team found an Iraqi Embassy document in the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) headquarters related to an offer to sell yellowcake to Iraq.  The document reveals that a Ugandan businessman approached the Iraqis with an offer to sell uranium, reportedly from the Congo."

The Ugandan 'friend' who wanted to arrange the uranium transfer, also said in the letter that:

"...he will do his best to help Iraq and Iraq's regime for Jihad together against our enemy, and he considers supporting the power of Iraq to be his participation which is power for all Muslims, and he feels that his duties are to support and strengthen that power."

- Kevin Rudd, Lateline, February 19, 2004.

- The Flood Report, July, 2004.

- Kevin Rudd, The Monthly, November 2006.

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- Kevin Rudd, Sydney Morning Herald, November 9, 2006.

In fact, Hayek rejected radical libertarianism. In his book 'Constitution of Liberty' he wrote:

"[T]hough a few theorists have demanded that the activities of government should be limited to the maintenance of law and order, such a stand cannot be justified by the principle of liberty" (p. 257).

He went on to say that:

"All modern governments have made provision for the indigent, the unfortunate, and disabled and have concerned themselves with questions of health and the dissemination of knowledge. There is no reason why the volume of these pure service activities should not increase with the general growth of wealth. There are common needs that can be satisfied only by collective action and which can be thus provided for without restricting individual liberty." (p. 257)

Hayek had no inherent objection to governments raising taxes in order to pay for social welfare, healthcare or education, provided these services enabled citizens to achieve their own private goals. The problem is when governments force citizens to pursue the goals of a 'political elite.'

Hayek did not oppose the welfare state. He opposed social justice which he defined as "the coercive powers of government to insure a more even or more just distribution of goods" (p. 259)

"Life changed overnight ... as I thought about it later on, as a kid growing up, it became clearer and clearer to me that the hospital system that I grew up with, that he had to use, was by that stage pretty much Third World."

- Kevin Rudd, Sunday, March 4, 2007.

He also claimed that Queensland surgeons at that time were basically incompetent, because, in later years, he heard reports that surgeons at the Brisbane Royal Hospital had failed to take proper care of his father.

The report also said that Albert Rudd had been drinking before driving, that he kept falling asleep at the wheel, and that when the car hit a power pole, he was not wearing a seatbelt and suffered massive internal injuries.

So without any evidence at all, Kevin Rudd maligns the reputation of the surgeons who worked to save his father's life, in order to conceal the fact that his father was a drunken driver, that alcohol abuse was the prime contributor to his father's death, and the source of Kevin's hardships as a child.

- Kevin Rudd, Interview with Julia Baird, ABC, March 5, 2006.

"Within two or three weeks of Dad's funeral, we were told we had to go. I can remember the terrible discussion between my mother and the fellow who owned the land."

- Kevin Rudd, The Australian Women's Weekly, January, 2007.

"He's dragged our father's proud reputation through the mud time and time again. Dad was a caring, compassionate man with terrific family values. What pains us most is the fact that he thought the world of the Rudds...He's taken the Low family for fools. We are now seeking legal advice on the matter."

Long-term Eumundi residents said they had become increasingly mystified at the eviction stories. Daphne Greer knew Aubrey Low most of her life and regularly socialised with the Rudds:

"The Aubrey Low I knew - and the Aubrey Low everyone else around here knew - would never have evicted Margaret Rudd. He was a decent man. The whole tale is bizarre, to say the least."

Mrs McCahon said:

"Since 1956, Bert [Rudd] had been employed as a share farmer and when the monthly milk cheque came in, his wage was half that cheque. Out of his money, his outlay was half the cost of feed for the cattle and any additional labour he may have hired. Other expenses were met by my father. When Bert died our father had no choice but to employ a new farmer. It was the biggest dairy farm on the Sunshine Coast and there were more than 120 cows that needed milking morning and night. Margaret would always have known at some point, inevitably, an incoming farmer would have to occupy the farmhouse. But provisions were put in place by our father for Margaret. He explained to her she could remain on the farm, at no cost whatsoever, until such time as the new farmer arrived. What Kevin has always failed to state is that the new farmer didn't even arrive until July - that's almost six months after his father's death. During that entire time, our family continued to run the farm. There was absolutely no reason for them to have left until the new farmer arrived in July. To continuously say he was evicted immediately after his dad's funeral is quite an unbelievable statement. Not only does he blame our father for the so-called eviction, he subsequently mentions having to sleep rough in a car."

Joyce said:

"My father was caring and compassionate, a wonderful man and I wish he was around to clear this all up. There was an arrangement made ... it [the eviction] didn't happen in the way he [Mr Rudd] said."

Joan Keehn knew Aubrey Low and socialised with the Rudds:

"When these articles began to appear, the older faces around town said 'That can't be right,' " she said. "Aubrey was a good fella, a hard-working family man. He provided for his kids and had a good heart."

Eumundi Rural Fire Brigade's chief officer, Ernie Holt, said:

"[Aubrey Low] worked hard and expected the same from those who worked for him. But above all else he was a good man."

- Sydney Morning Herald, March 11, 2007.

KEVIN Rudd promised to deliver Labor a new and younger leadership style to defeat the Howard Government. Mr Rudd vowing to pick his own frontbench Team and said he would override factions to select fresh talent, including former Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett:

"I intend to get new talent on to the front bench of the Labor party and I've already indicated that Peter Garrett will be part of that new, talented line-up�There'll be others as well, I'm confident of that. I'll be leading the show and when it comes to the outcomes I want, I intend to get them. I don't care if anyone has opposing views � that's what's going to happen."

- Herald Sun, December 5, 2006.

In reality, Rudd's front bench has not changed much at all. Apart from the departing Kim Beazley and the promotion of recent recruit Peter Garrett, Rudd has brought back former shadow ministers Craig Emerson and Bob McMullan. They can hardly be called "new talent."

Furthermore, far-left faction members, Anthony Albanese, Kim Carr and Kelvin Thompson (before he resigned in disgrace), were retained in the new cabinet. And veterans Simon Crean, Jenny Macklin, and Lindsay Tanner can hardly be described as "new and younger."

Rudd also has to abide by the ALP's strict affirmative action policy and therefore must appoint a particular number of women.

Therefore, Rudd's bold promises to pick his own front bench are, in reality, so laughable that they can only be construed as a deliberate lie to impress the media and public.

"What I can absolutely recall is that there was nothing inappropriate as far as my behaviour was concerned..."
- Interview with Kerry O'Brien, 7.30 Report, April 20, 2007

"I called Therese, my wife, the next day explained to her what had happened and told her I had been a bit of a goose, and that's the truth of it."
- Interview with Laurie Oakes, Sunday, April 19, 2007

Scores not only has a spot-lit stage with strippers, it is crawling with women who sit topless with you for a drink and will dance in your lap for dollars. Even Ray Charles would have noticed!

So Kevin was too drunk to remember the strippers, but not too drunk to remember not touching them. How does that work?

Rudd even admits he rang his wife the very next day to apologise...but for what? For having a drink in a bar that just like most Australian pubs with no lap dancers in sight???

Rudd remembered the chant �Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Thommo don�t get you, then Lillee must,� but mostly he remembered 42-year-old Colin Cowdrey - called to duty from England to halt the carnage - walking onto the field and going up to Thomson to shake the hand of the man who was going to hurt him.

Secondly, Colin Cowdrey never played in the Brisbane Test. He did not face the Australians until the Perth Test!

KEVIN Rudd's office received an email in late March from the Department of Veterans Affairs warning him a �pretend� Anzac Day dawn service at Long Tan would offend veterans.

Rudd said the email from Repatriation Commissioner Brigadier Bill Rolfe was not brought to his attention at the time [he didn't accept this argument from John Howard's re Children Overboard so why should we accept this from him?], or afterwards, when the issue sparked controversy about his alleged involvement in shifting the time of the service to accommodate television programming...

In his emails sent to channel Seven, which have been obtained by The Australian, Brigadier Rolfe slammed the network for its plans to hold a �pretend� dawn service...

On March 29, he wrote to Sunrise producer Adam Boland, saying: �I have a (personal) problem with the conduct of a pretended dawn service at 0400 hours on Anzac Day - at a significant site in a sensitive circumstance, where some effort has been devoted to obtaining official approval for conduct of a service at 0515 - in order to meet television programming times.�

Brigadier Rolfe had already sent an email to Mr Rudd�s personal secretary Mary Mawhinney on March 27 expressing concern about the plan, saying there was �some danger in such actions of seriously offending veterans and perhaps the wider community�.

- The Australian, April 13, 2007.

Furthermore, Rudd even had airline tickets booked for the event!

An email on the same day from Sunrise's production manager, Paula Crawford, was sent to Seven staff as well as departmental officials and Mr Rudd's deputy chief of staff, Alister Jordan. It says Mr Rudd and Ms Bishop have made private arrangements to fly to Vietnam.

- Sydney Morning Herald, April 13, 2007

- Herald Sun, November 14, 2007

- The Australian, February 17, 2008.

When asked why he didn't drive a Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle, Rudd pretended it was not available through the government plan.

- Courier Mail, April 19, 2007.

Furthermore, according to the assessment of the Federal Government�s Green Vehicle Guide it would be difficult for someone concerned about environmental damage to make a worse choice than the Territory. It rates only 2.5 stars when CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and air pollution are taken into consideration. The Toyota Prius, gets 6 stars. Even the large Ford Falcon rates better than the Territory!

- Julia Gillard, Interview with Mike Carlton, 2UE, February 20, 2008.

By the way, all students in years 9-12 already have "access to a computer"!

Mr Rudd has previously told local media he was scratching his chin.

- Sydney Morning Herald, October 31, 2007.