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Kevin Rudd: The Biography
March 7,
At the ALP National Conference, he said "My name is Kevin: I'm from Queensland; and I'm here to help."
Robert Macklin wrote a modest biography of Kevin Rudd. He opens the narrative by providing a background of Rudd's paternal ancestors who were shipped from London to the new colony, Australia. They were among the passengers of the Second Fleet.
The ex-prime minister's paternal fifth great-grandmother Mary Wade was a London street urchin who made a pittance by sweeping streets and begging. In , aged 12, she and an older girl coaxed an eight-year-old girl into a toilet where they relieved her of "her dress, petticoats, a linen tippet, and a cap and absconded".
Wade was sentenced to death by hanging after a trial at London's Old Bailey in January , but the sentence was commuted to transportation to the colony.
Mary Wade married Thomas Rudd who was also convicted of a crime of stealing a “bag of sugar” and was sentenced to be transported.
Macklin then went on to tell a tale of his mother's love life until she met and married Bert Rudd. Together, they embarked on a family life in rural Nambour in Qld.
What shaped Kevin's pro-poor, pro-labor political ideology was tremendously influenced by his childhood. After his father died, the landlord of the has farm evicted the family from farm-share. Driven to poverty, his mother was the sole family bread-winner. They went homeless living life one day at a time inside a Volkswagen car parked by the roadside. As a young boy, this left a profound wound of injustice. He said, "This should not happen to anyone!"
He was an ordinary primary school boy until he reached a juncture when he decided "to make it better."
Macklin admired Kevin for his fine manners, astute mind, and suave in foreign languages. He was admitted to ANU to pursue his passion in Chinese language. Then he married Therese Reid. His first foreign affairs assignment was Sweden.
Kevin has a high regard to the German theologian, pastor, and peace advocate--Dietrich Bonhoeffer--who believed that the church should be the voice of the oppressed and an instrument for social justice. He noted Bonhoeffer, "When Christ calls a man, he has to follow Him and die with Him." Bonhoeffer was hanged to death before the liberation following the example of Christ
Kevin emerged as a party leader after a long leadership vacuum beating Kim Beazley in late He unseated the power-intoxicated John Howard in the December federal poll.
Robert Macklin wrote a modest biography of Kevin Rudd. He opens the narrative by providing a background of Rudd's paternal ancestors who were shipped from London to the new colony, Australia. They were among the passengers of the Second Fleet.
The ex-prime minister's paternal fifth great-grandmother Mary Wade was a London street urchin who made a pittance by sweeping streets and begging. In , aged 12, she and an older girl coaxed an eight-year-old girl into a toilet where they relieved her of "her dress, petticoats, a linen tippet, and a cap and absconded".
Wade was sentenced to death by hanging after a trial at London's Old Bailey in January , but the sentence was commuted to transportation to the colony.
Mary Wade married Thomas Rudd who was also convicted of a crime of stealing a “bag of sugar” and was sentenced to be transported.
Macklin then went on to tell a tale of his mother's love life until she met and married Bert Rudd. Together, they embarked on a family life in rural Nambour in Qld.
What shaped Kevin's pro-poor, pro-labor political ideology was tremendously influenced by his childhood. After his father died, the landlord of the has farm evicted the family from farm-share. Driven to poverty, his mother was the sole family bread-winner. They went homeless living life one day at a time inside a Volkswagen car parked by the roadside. As a young boy, this left a profound wound of injustice. He said, "This should not happen to anyone!"
He was an ordinary primary school boy until he reached a juncture when he decided "to make it better."
Macklin admired Kevin for his fine manners, astute mind, and suave in foreign languages. He was admitted to ANU to pursue his passion in Chinese language. Then he married Therese Reid. His first foreign affairs assignment was Sweden.
Kevin has a high regard to the German theologian, pastor, and peace advocate--Dietrich Bonhoeffer--who believed that the church should be the voice of the oppressed and an instrument for social justice. He noted Bonhoeffer, "When Christ calls a man, he has to follow Him and die with Him." Bonhoeffer was hanged to death before the liberation following the example of Christ
Kevin emerged as a party leader after a long leadership vacuum beating Kim Beazley in late He unseated the power-intoxicated John Howard in the December federal poll.