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] Date Posted: 12:04:16 11/14/13 Thu Print Email Facebook Twitter More Have your say Former prime minister Kevin Rudd quits federal politics with emotional speech to Parliament Updated 2 hours 0 minutes ago Video: Rudd retires: watch speeches from the House of Representatives Photo: Kevin Rudd wipes a tear from his eye after announcing his retirement (ABC TV) Related Story: In quotes: friends and foes react to Rudd's retirement Related Story: Rudd considered staying on as Labor leader: Hawker diaries Map: Australia Former prime minister Kevin Rudd announced his retirement from politics in an emotional speech to Parliament on Wednesday night, adding "it really is time for me to zip". Kevin Rudd Born September 21, 1957 Elected as MP for Griffith in 1998 Elected opposition leader in December, 2006 Elected prime minister in December, 2007 Ousted by Julia Gillard in June 2010 Foreign minister from September 2010 to February 2012 Sworn in as PM again on June 27, 2013 Defeated in federal election on September 7, 2013 Announces his retirement from Parliament on November 13, 2013 Mr Rudd, who has served as the Member for Griffith since 1998, says he will leave Parliament at the end of this week. "This has been the product of much soul-searching for us as a family over the last few months," he said, fighting back tears. "The decision that I have made has not been taken lightly. "But for me, my family is everything, always has been, always will be, which is why I will not be continuing as a member of this Parliament beyond this week." Mr Rudd, who served in the top job between 2007 and 2010, and then again this year, went on to wish Tony Abbott luck, saying the office of Prime Minister was the "hardest job in the land". Divisive figure: Rudd's political career Rise and fall: Look back on Kevin Rudd's political life Analysis: Labor, Liberal, friend or foe, Kevin Rudd had an almost unique ability to polarise opinions "I wish Tony, his wife Margie and their family all the best for the rigours of high office that inevitably lie ahead," he said. On his side of politics he singled out Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, as well as key supporters Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen. "Having served as Leader of the Opposition myself, this is never a position for the faint-hearted. There are always long dark nights of the soul but believe it or not, morning does come, often sooner than you think," he said. "Bill brings great strength to the position. I have every confidence he will lead Labor's return to the Treasury benches. "I wish to thank Albo as his extraordinary service as deputy prime minister and leader of the house. Albo is the most formidable parliamentarian in this place, as is recognised on both sides of the chamber." When speaking of his future Mr Rudd said he was planning to establish a "national apology foundation", highlighting his apology to Indigenous Australians, which he said was a signature achievement of his time as prime minister. He also spoke of his desire to remain active in the international community. My family is everything, always has been, always will be, which is why I will not be continuing as a member of this Parliament beyond this week. Kevin Rudd "I am passionately Australian and passionately a citizen of the world. I intend to be active in the international community in areas where I can make a genuine contribution to peace and stability, global economic governance and sustainable development, including climate change," he said. And despite the emotion of the situation, Mr Rudd ended the speech with his signature sign-off. "On this final occasion in the Parliament, and as is now officially recorded in the classics for occasions such as this, it really is time for me to zip," he said. Video: Kevin Rudd: A political life Rudd a 'big figure' in Australian public life: Abbott Mr Abbott paid tribute Mr Rudd, saying his retirement is a significant event in the history of the Parliament. "To lose someone who has been one of the big figures in this Parliament and one of the big figures in the life, the public life of our country over the best part of two decades," he said. Video: Rudd's service 'very significant': Abbott "As a political opponent, but as someone who has known the Member for Griffith quite well for a long time, I salute him and I wish him and his family all the best for the future, and I express my confidence that one way or another he will continue to serve our country." Mr Abbott also paid tribute to Mr Rudd's apology to Indigenous Australians, calling it "something to crown an amazing public life". "Much as I admire and appreciate and put on a huge pedestal his immediate predecessor (John Howard), in this respect at least, he had lacked the imagination to grasp that opportunity and the member for Griffith, Kevin, he had the decency to see that here was something that needed to be done," he said. "He did it with courage, with decency, compassion and that alone is an extraordinary achievement." As a political opponent, but as someone who has known the Member for Griffith quite well for a long time, I salute him and I wish him and his family all the best for the future. Tony Abbott Tributes flowed from both sides of Parliament, with former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull saying Mr Rudd was toughest person he had ever encountered in politics. "The member for Griffith was kind enough to refer to me as his friend and I am touched by that, Kevin, I really am. After you lost.. initially I was very worried about you because I'd known how low I had sunk in a much less difficult loss of leadership," he said, "[But] as I got to know you I realised what an extraordinarily tough individual you are. Your determination is unequalled by anyone I've worked with in politics. I don't know anyone that is just so filled with energy, and determination, and a preparedness to overcome any setback, and that is a triumph of the human spirit." Shorten speaks of Rudd's enduring popularity Treasurer Joe Hockey also took the opportunity to wish his old Sunrise sparring partner well, saying Mr Rudd's granddaughter "could be well satisfied that her life is better for his contribution to our nation". Mr Shorten pointed to Mr Rudd's stewardship of the Australian economy as a key achievement of the former prime minister, and spoke of his enduring popularity with the Australian people. Audio: Kevin Rudd resigns from federal politics (PM) "I do not believe that we will see his like again in the Australian Parliament," he said. "Even his harshest critics, of which there are some, would say that he does have a special relationship with the Australian people," But he also referenced the bitter feud that cost both Mr Rudd and former prime minister Julia Gillard their positions. "This is a tumultuous era in Labor and, with the Member for Griffith's resignation tonight, part of it comes to a close," he said. "He has been the leader of the Labor Party in difficult circumstances for the Labor Party. We emerged after a significant election loss with a party that is more united, stronger, and more cohesive than it would have been if that reform was not put in place under Kevin Rudd's leadership. Anthony Albanese "He has been part of tumultuous debates within our party in the last number of years, But I do think that most fair-minded people will recognise that when he returned to the task of PM in those weeks before the last election... his contribution helped mean that the quality of Australian democracy was improved." Mr Rudd's former deputy Anthony Albanese, however, paid tribute to the decision to return to leadership. "He could have retired having led Labor to victory in 2007.... no-one could have questioned what the outcomes might have been in 2010, and retired as an undefeated prime minister from the Australian electorate," he said. "[But] he chose to put the party that he loves first before his own interests and the interests of his family and I thank him for that, because Labor is competitive." And he said Mr Rudd's reform of the Labor leadership process had revitalised and democratised the party. "We emerged after a significant election loss with a party that is more united, stronger, and more cohesive than it would have been if that reform was not put in place under Kevin Rudd's leadership," he said. Former prime minister Julia Gillard has also wished Mr Rudd well for the future on Twitter: Best wishes to Kevin, Therese & their family as they embark on the next stage of their lives. JG — Julia Gillard (@JuliaGillard) November 13, 2013 Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd were embroiled in a bitter fight for the leadership of the Labor party after Mr Rudd lost his prime ministership to Ms Gillard in 2010, only to win back party support shortly before the 2013 federal election. Mr Rudd has asked for privacy for his family in the coming days. Gallery: Kevin Rudd in pictures: Career in politics Topics: federal-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, australia First posted Wed 13 Nov 2013, 8:18pm AEDT Have your say Please wait while we process your request Please wait while we retrieve the user's information Bio Your bio is currently empty. Now is a great time to fill in your profile. Rank This profile is private. This profile is only shared with friends. This profile is under review. We were unable to request friendship with this user. We were unable to request friendship with this user. Are you logged in? Your friendship request has been sent to this user. We were unable to terminate friendship with this user. We were unable to terminate friendship with this user. Are you logged in? You are no longer friends with this user. We were unable to ignore this user. We were unable to ignore this user. Are you logged in? This user is now ignored. 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Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -1 Name withheld crepitus 12:13 PM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore crepitus. Show DetailsHide Details Rudd started with such promise as did Whitlam but like Gough got lost along the way with his own conceit. I struggle to find what positive contribution Rudd made to our country. Gillard's usurpation made Rudd look a victim as she pursued bitter feuds within the ALP. She was a disaster in spite of the love-ins being arranged for her lately. Rudd - Gillard showed us that the ALP is most interested in power and gaining it by whatever means. Both Labor PMs will go down in history as rivals and self-interested ambitious politicians. Only their Labor fans will glorify them. Australia is the better without their being in Parliament. Bill Shorten will be no better given his social climbing and marital disloyalty and not being the popular choice of the "dank and vile "of the ALP . 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -1 Name withheld ouphrontis 11:53 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore ouphrontis. Show DetailsHide Details Thank god Rudd has gone. The nation owes him nothing I contend. What a disaster for the working Australian and family the little man has been! 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 0 Name withheld true blue ozzie 11:51 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore true blue ozzie. Show DetailsHide Details A very sad time for many who respested the self driven man, who could see Australia being a world leader in so many things. Visionaries are not always easy to be around, but there driven with the best of intentions for the good of the people. Rudd was a god send for those of us who got screwed by Howards Work Choices, we were paid our normal hourly rates for weekend's, our working conditions & wages took a hard hit and we were back to strugling to pay our bill's. Gillard & Co's midnight slaughter of a sitting PM, was the most disdracefull cowardly act ever committed in Australian politics. Little did we know at the time, that Gillards inability to communicate with the issues in hand, but its was to be come the failing of her leadership of the Labor Party. The dumping of Rudd hit Larbor hard in the election of 2010, Abbott couldnt form a government so Gillard & Co got in by a hair. Rudd had a positive out look for Australiss future and never talked our country down unlike Abbott whos destroying our country by say things are bad, out right cruelty to asylum seekers, and cutting aid to the most needy of the world. Australia has become a self centred, greedy country with no heart to care for anyone. Rudd we will miss you ! 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -3 Name withheld stoops to conquer 11:43 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore stoops to conquer. Show DetailsHide Details Rudd should have done this the night of the election defeat; the clean, surgical cut heals fastest. I would say he didn't because he still harboured visions of once again leading the party, but subsequent events and public maulings from ex-colleagues, who probably thought the same, made it clear even to him that this was a bridge too far. I'm sure Abbott will arrange a cushy little number for Rudd at the UN or some ambassadorial role given his undoubted nouse on foreign affairs. Talent should not go wasted. However I with many others welcome Rudd's departure as he is a great liability to the stability of the ALP. It now increases the chance to remove the odious Abbott government which daily displays why they should never have been voted in. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 1 Name withheld anyone 11:38 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore anyone. Show DetailsHide Details Zip it, Zap it, call it what you like it... but just be gone for good this time please! 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 0 Name withheld john51 10:57 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore john51. Show DetailsHide Details You can see there are still a lot of good Rudd haters by some of these comments. Kevin Rudd, in his time in Parliament and as Prime Minister, was a mixed bag. He did some good things and he did some very good things. Just as some of the things he did are questionable, but history will shine a better light on that. It won't be the comments here. I did love how Hockey tried to rewrite his own parties history in this this morning. He found it very hard to give much credit to Rudd and labor for what they did to save the Australian economy and people from the worst of the GFC. He had to add that it was because of the low level of debt left by the Howard government. That is what has always got me about this debate on this issue by the coalition. Federal debt may have been virtually nil at the time when the GFC hit. That changed the moment the GFC hit. The economy changed with the GFC and any former budget surplus was gone. It needed to be saved which is what labor set about doing. Hockey ignores the fact that Howard left this country with the states carrying debt. He left the country with very high corporate and private debt. Howard did a lot of cost shifting from the public purse to the corporate and private purse. He also left this country with a significant structural budget deficit. And that is not just me saying that. A lot of economists have said that. Rudd and labor for all their faults kept this economy ticking over and kept people in jobs. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 3 Name withheld tsj 10:55 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore tsj. Show DetailsHide Details Kevin Rudd is doing a decent thing in retiring, to allow new Labor to regroup without the baggage from the past (or as little of it as is possible given the the circumstances with Bill Shorten as leader). He is also doing what he had no choice but to do. The media and political machinations have seen to it that this would be a foregone conclusion. He is misunderstood by many and loved and hated by many more. I believe that his intentions were good, but his delivery was flawed and his political affiliations not strong within his own party. A shame that it could not have turned out differently. He sits at odds with his own party. A man not of his own time. Despite reports from disgruntled politicians and the media, his family stands as a testimony of the true character of this man. Interesting to see where he goes from here. He would be best in an autonomous role I think. BOL Kevin. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -4 Name withheld othello86 10:52 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore othello86. Show DetailsHide Details he was good, he was bad, he polarised us, he energised us, we appreciated his Mandarin skills, we admired his wife's business acumen, we thought his kids were terrific, his political pairing with Julia could have been a fairy-tale, he gave us much to admire, we are the better for having known him. Can he please stay until the next election, or else pay for the by-election? 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 1 Name withheld solon 6 10:48 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore solon 6. Show DetailsHide Details Very sad to see Rudd go. He gave us hope, and aspirations, and achieved or helped to achieve more of them than almost any leader can, then fell prey to the Tall Poppy Syndrome. When I actually stirred myself up to go to a public meeting and see him in person prior to '07, my one reservation was that he was out of our class for an Australian prime minister and belonged on the world stage. Hope future circumstances will allow him to fulfil that potential. All good wishes to him and his family. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -1 Name withheld vvssss 10:42 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore vvssss. Show DetailsHide Details Kevin Rudd was a unique politician: he was – and is – kind, friendly, considerate, articulate, and committed. He is also a visionary who understands the difficulties not just Australians, but all humans, face in terms of global warming. Kevin Rudd's ascendancy in Labor, as in Australian leadership, was always going to produce a backlash to his decency and forward thinking from all those in Caucus, who hated his charisma and ability – just as Alan Ramsay predicted so long ago – and those mean and bitter individuals who refuse to acknowledge the fact that they have to be accountable for their own pollution. It saddens me that a good man is leaving politics, to the howls of the ignorant, hateful, and selfish commentators who themselves had done nothing aspirational for this nation or this world. 1 replies1 reply 1 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: -4 Name withheld stormnteacup 10:31 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore stormnteacup. Show DetailsHide Details I cant believe the rubbish that people such as Abbot can talk just because the worst PM ever has resigned. I suppose it's like the old adage of never speaking ill of the dead. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 2 Name withheld bazintaz 10:30 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore bazintaz. Show DetailsHide Details Good Luck Kevin all the best in your future. Never and still don't like many of the right wingers in the Labor party they scream the loudest and point fingers but it is they that started the wrecking of the labor party, they never should have knifed you in the back. Gillard was a huge disappointment under her leadership too many policies, Labor policies lurched to the right and popularity plummeted as a result, (mind you I liked the plain packaging legistation) somebody said somewhere that much of the right in Labor could fit right in with the Liberal party ideologically how right they were. In fact that is where I would prefer to see them. Just watch the right try and parachute one of their own into Rudd's seat. It was a big ask for Kevin to come in and try and win the 2013 election for labor with the few weeks he had left, got to say I liked his reforms for leadership challenges. Bit of a shame that Albo did'nt win. Bills got the leadership cant see him being much different to Gillard policy wise. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 2 Name withheld crusader rabbit 10:30 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore crusader rabbit. Show DetailsHide Details At last this craven fakir will leave us all alone. Watching his Parliamentary performance last night, two days after Paul Keating's impressive interview with Kerry O'Brien, you can't help but marvel at the contrast – and at how far Labor has declined. Good riddance Kevin. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 0 Name withheld scupundi 10:29 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore scupundi. Show DetailsHide Details Only now that both Rudd and Gillard have gone can the Labor Party rebuild. They wrecked the Labor party and it will take a generation before they will able to credibly offer themselves as an alternative government. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 2 Name withheld freddie o 10:28 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore freddie o. Show DetailsHide Details I wish him and his family well. I admire him for his work rate. And, his humanist approach to his Electorate. If all those things that are alleged, are remotely true about his temperament then, I for one would have clipped him under the ear, quicker than a Deaf Adder strike. That's if I had to work with him, of course. I think we would have got on famously; trading short sharp jibes every day. Kevin is a worker and, the work comes first. He genuinely loves people for who they are and, what they have made of themselves. He accepts, with the inquiring curiosity of an alert mind, the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the individual. He sensed that there was something emerging, that was wrong with the ALP and, was going to do something about it. Now in opposition,that something might be heading towards the Parliamentary ALP like a train wreck. You wouldn't want to be around. Time to go. How and when he did go was always a matter between him and his family on one hand and, him and the Electorate of Griffith that he served so well. I thought he advised of his departure with grace and dignity. That which his Government did for the Country has been said many a time. Its quite remarkable, by any assessment. Good luck Kevin 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 1 Name withheld love summer time 10:27 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore love summer time. Show DetailsHide Details Thank you for serving. BUT as for all the praise being dished out. What...huh ....the Rudd/Gillard years, worst in Aussie history. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 2 Name withheld anyone 10:08 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore anyone. Show DetailsHide Details GOOD RIDDANCE. Gives the media something to fill in the void for the next few days. Shame that it has to steal the headlines from the more tragic news in the Philippines. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 0 Name withheld losimpson 10:00 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore losimpson. Show DetailsHide Details If Rudd had learnt to relax during his first stint as PM he could have been good. But he didn't. His second stint as PM was for no other purpose than to limit the electoral damage after Gillard had been so badly damaged by the Murdoch press and the shock jocks. So there is no conclusion to be drawn there. It's best he has called it a day. 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. Abuse Reported Report Abuse Score: 2 Name withheld knox 9:44 AM on 14/11/2013 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore knox. Show DetailsHide Details It is typical of Rudd....Not in the spot light for a while so feels he has to be, so resigns on day 2 of the new parliament...a more narcissistic person I have never seen....he would do well in the USA...shallow and pointless 0 replies1 reply 0 replies1 reply Please wait while we perform your request. Please wait while we perform your request. 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