Members of the Australian House of Representatives - Kevin Rudd, Gough Whitlam, Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson, Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, Mark Latham, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 203. Chapters: Kevin Rudd, Gough Whitlam, Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson, Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, Mark Latham, Gareth Evans (politician), Brendan Nelson, Bob Hawke, Billy Hughes, Paul Keating, William Bostock, Malcolm Fraser, John Forrest, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Alexander Downer, John Curtin, Andrew Fisher, Edmund Barton, Peter Garrett, Alfred Deakin, List of people who have served in both Houses of the Australian Parliament, Jim Cairns, Andrew Wilkie, John Gorton, Rob Oakeshott, Kim Beazley, Ben Chifley, John Alexander (tennis), George Reid (Australian politician), Kevin Andrews (Australian politician), Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Chris Watson, Arthur Calwell, Maxine McKew, Richard Casey, Baron Casey, Bronwyn Bishop, Peter Coleman, Steven Ciobo, Bob Katter, Carmen Lawrence, Tanya Plibersek, John Hewson, H. V. Evatt, Hubert Opperman, Joseph Lyons, John Brumby, Stanley Bruce, Wayne Swan, Simon Crean, Isaac Isaacs, Neville Howse, Tony Windsor. Excerpt: Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and the Leader of the Labor Party from 2006 to 2010. 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 a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies at the Australian National University, majoring in Chinese language and Chinese history. He worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1981 to 1988, when he became Chief of Staff to Queensland Premier Wayne Goss. After the Goss Government lost office in 1996, Rudd was hired as a Senior China Consultant by the accounting firm KPMG Australia. Rudd was first elected to the House of Representatives for Griffith at the 1998 federal election, joining the Shadow Cabinet in 2001 as Shadow...