The Australians have come a long way since 2007 when climate change was a big factor in the change of government from Tory to Labor. A few years later, in part because the new Labor PM, Kevin Rudd, wasn’t effecting legislation fast enough to put a price on carbon, he was replaced in his party […]
In the fall of 2007, Australians threw out the government that had been dragging its feet on action on climate change for years. The first thing that Kevin Rudd, the new Prime Minister, did was to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Australians had been experiencing the crush of drought and heat and were more than ready […]
I talked about Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s address at the Foreign Policy Association’s annual World Leadership Forum. Here is a video of this compelling speech. Rudd drew a highly convincing picture of how the world can and should reinvigorate multinational organizations.
This year’s annual World Leadership Forum from the Foreign Policy Association was keynoted by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He gave a fascinating speech calling on the US to resume its leadership in the world and to be supported in this by “…a new ‘driving centre’ of global politics and the global economy – a […]
Asia Times Online is running an article that touches on Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s desire for a Asia-Pacific Union similar to the European Union by 2020. This union would include all of ASEAN, China, Japan, India, and the United States. As fantastic as the proposal is, he is not the first Australian PM […]
We were away for several days (see post below), otherwise I would’ve further deluged you with information on the passage of the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), aka ACES, beyond what you may already have been experiencing. I should, of course, weigh in with my humble opinion. My first impulse, given […]