| He also released a plan before the election to require 20% of Australia's electricity to be generated from renewable power sources | Rudd reflected later that "we all failed |
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| Through 2014 Rudd joined the as a distinguished statesman, and was appointed a distinguished fellow at both the at the , Illinois and , London | Rudd's policy experience and parliamentary performances during the Iraq War made him one of the best-known Labor members |
However, Hawke found the department was not up to the task of monitoring thousands of independent contractors around Australia on a tight timeframe and that demand was higher than anticipated, which led to safety and quality risks that "cannot be fully abated".
5| Rudd attended the in , , in December 2007 just ten days after being sworn in | Prior to the election, Paul Kelly wrote that Rudd had "enshrined climate change as the new moral passion for the Labor Party in a way that recalled Ben Chifley's invocation of the Light on the Hill" |
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| The program supplied office software, photo and video editing software, and web design software, some of it unusable due to the hardware becoming obsolete | Immigration As prime minister, Rudd professed his belief in a "", while his government increased the immigration quota after to around 300,000 people |
In 2011, Rudd underwent a second cardiac valve transplant operation, making a full recovery from the surgery.
16| It also included the restoration of unfair dismissal laws for companies with under 100 employees probation period of 12 months for companies with less than 15 employees , and the retention of the Australian Building and Construction Commission until 2010 | His first posting was as Third Secretary at the Australian Embassy in from November 1981 to December 1983 where he organised an Australian film festival, represented Australia at the Stockholm Conference on Acidification of the Environment, and reported on Soviet gas pipelines and European energy security |
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| He attended Eumundi State School | In his first speech to Parliament in 1998, Rudd outlined his belief in the need for governments to take an active role in the economy, particularly to assure equality of opportunity |
His Cabinet colleague also spoke against Rudd, saying of his time in office that "the stories that were around of the chaos, of the temperament, of the inability to have decisions made, they are not stories.
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