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October 12, 2008 | By TonyfromOz |
SIR? IT’S THAT AUSTRALIAN GUY RINGING AGAIN
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
Kevin Rudd is the Prime Minister of Australia, and as a fellow Australian, I’m just so glad that it is an Australian actually out there doing something to fix up all the problems on the Planet.
There’s something about talking to famous people - especially foreign leaders - that really, truly excites Kevin Rudd. His hunger for such big-noting is manifested not just by his insatiable foreign travels, largely pointless, but by his almost daily calls to big shots overseas - and his ludicrous need to tell everyone about them afterwards.
Just what, if anything, is achieved by all those calls is rarely, if ever, explained. It seems enough to Rudd that he lets journalists know again and again that he’s the kind of guy who these days calls world leaders. He’s famous! Influential! Plugged in!
Some typical reports:
September 25:
Kevin Rudd, behind the scenes, has been urging ideas for solutions on the Bush Administration for a couple of weeks. He has used official channels, but he has also drawn on his personal relationship with the president of the World Bank, Bob Zoellick, formerly a senior official in the Bush Administration… And the Prime Minister, on the phone to McCain last week, urged the Republican candidate to commit to a Rudd proposal on financial transparency.
September 30:
(Rudd has) been on the phone to some members of the Congress adding to the pressure on them to reverse their decision.
September 30:
Mr Rudd has been on the phone to the Australian ambassador in the United States, Dennis Richardson, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
October 1:
Prime Minister, you’ve just been on the phone to the Prime Minister of Japan, this morning to the British Prime Minister.
October 3:
AROUND 5.30am yesterday Kevin Rudd, in Perth for the Council of Australian Governments meeting, was on the phone to the US House of Representatives majority leader, Democrat Steny Hoyer… On Wednesday, the PM was talking to his Japanese counterpart, Taro Aso; every couple of days, he has a conversation with Britain’s Gordon Brown.
October 8:
(Vietnamese) Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will pay an official visit to Australia on Oct. 13-14 at the invitation of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd… The two sides have since held many high-level meetings and discussions, with the latest taking place in June 2008, when PM Kevin Rudd talked on the phone with PM Dung.
October 9:
The Prime Minister received a quite optimistic picture when he rang Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Monday night.
October 10:
I (Rudd) spoke again this morning to the British Prime Minister, Australian time, about the measures which the British Government has just announced in its financial support package…Following a conversation I had with Premier Wen Jiabao a couple of nights ago, on the question of China’s growth strategy, it would appear to me to be confirming that China intends long term to accelerate its growth strategy into the future.
October 10:
I speak with the President of the United States on a regular basis…
October 11:
That advice was delivered by 8.30am and the first of a series of meetings between Rudd, Swan, Moran, Henry and senior government staff began. Before then, Rudd had already managed to make two important overseas calls - to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Dennis Richardson, to get their perspectives on the crisis.
Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
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