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...With a little help, perhaps, from his star turn with Hu, Rudd was elected PM Nov. 24. Now the former diplomat, who campaigned on slogans like "new leadership," "fresh ideas" and "a vision for the future," is preparing to redirect Australia's approach to the world. The scale of his win, the gratitude of his party and his reputation as an autocrat put Rudd on track to be the most presidential PM Australia's seen. A keen interest in foreign affairs - sparked at age 14 when then-PM Gough Whitlam became the first Western leader to visit Beijing - suggests...
Most Australians knew that if opposition leader Kevin Rudd was in a good mood, you could get him to say a few words in Chinese. But at a lunch in Sydney in September, he went way beyond party tricks. Welcoming Chinese President Hu Jintao, Rudd broke into fluent Mandarin. Prime Minister John Howard and Hu had just witnessed a $35 billion contract for Australia to supply natural gas to China. But it wasn't the historic deal that set news wires abuzz - it was the image of Rudd upstaging Howard and impressing his guest. Next day, Hu invited the Labor...
...Rudd said his first move as PM would be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But with Australia's emissions targets already met, ratification is largely a matter of image - Aussies for a nicer, cleaner world. New leaders' first trips abroad are always scrutinized for significance. Rudd's will be to Bali Dec. 3, to attend preliminary U.N. talks on what will follow Kyoto. He said the visit "would be a way of indicating that we intend to be globally diplomatically active" on climate change. "We are sure that his attendance will have a symbolic meaning...
...Rudd is more of a multilateralist than Howard was, and will be "much more engaged with the U.N.," says William Tow, professor of international relations at the Australian National University. "He has a real commitment to Wilsonian principles. He will make values, as well as national interests, a matter of foreign policy. He'll emphasize dialogue and diplomacy...
...Howard had phoned his congratulations to Kevin Rudd, and Sky News announced the P. M.'s imminent arrival. A couple of diehards carrying a JOHN HOWARD FOREVER banner pushed roughly through the photographers lining the stage, careless of a supposedly left-leaning media complicit in Rudd's triumph. As one tried to protect his camera, a rugby league player in an expensive suit grabbed his shirt, snarling, "It's you f___ people's fault. Are you happy...