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Re: mick post# 5727

Saturday, 12/02/2006 2:00:28 AM

Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:00:28 AM

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yeh, a lot take a lot of things for granted

as to our enemies and our friends

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Christmas Don't Be Late #msg-15065470

we just owe it to ourselves
and our children's down the track
have to keep a loving eye on both
openness, consideration, shedding of some
adding of others, civision and multiplication

all part of the mix .. kysay is shedding
mammouth volume of tears aertmho is happy

think dey call it meta-cognitive thinking .. or sumpen' .. examination, analysis wid
as little preconception or prejudice as possible .. be a gooo juror? or, maybe we been there, before.

looks like Rudd in Australia .. next PM i trust .. imo no chance with Beazley and Howard
must be rejected this time for the same reasons as we all have to consider our feelings of self
respect and respect for each other..

National

02/12/2006 Rudd the battler raised in poverty HIS polished speech and know-it-all media appearances
disguise the fact Kevin Rudd is a genuine battler. (Hope by doing this I am not violating their reserved rights.)

Labor’s foreign affairs spokesman spent a childhood in poverty.

When Mr Rudd was 11, his father Bert died after a car accident, leading to the family’s eviction
from their Eumundi farm in Queensland.

He was cared for by relatives while his mother retrained as a nurse.

Now, aged 49, the Queensland MP, who is married with three children, is trying to project
himself as a compromise candidate against Kim Beazley for the
Labor leadership.

Mr Rudd will challenge Mr Beazley on Monday for the party’s leadership, with health spokeswoman
Julia Gillard running with him for the deputy leader’s position.

He said Australia had reached “a fork in the road” on issues including climate change and the future
of Australia’s involvement in Iraq — making it vital for Labor to win the next election.

“To meet this challenge, I believe that what the country is calling out for is a new style
of leadership,” he said.

Mr Rudd tested the water as a leadership aspirant in January last year after Labor’s drubbing
under Mark Latham, but withdrew when he found he was short on numbers against Mr Beazley.

Before entering politics, Mr Rudd won a scholarship to the Australian National University,
cleaning the home of journalist Laurie Oakes to earn money

After working as a diplomat and Queensland public servant, he was elected to the federal parliament in 1998.

His expertise on foreign affairs has kept Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on his toes.

With an election next year Mr Rudd risks leaving voters feeling it is too late to switch leaders.

http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/national/555334.html







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