Remember when this man, who set up strategies to ensure that Australia was the only country in the world that made it through the Global Financial Crisis completely intact, and who promised a nationwide broadband network with super-fast speeds that would cost approximately 31 billion U.S. dollars, was stabbed in the proverbial back by his own political party, after which his party lost the election to a government that offered a heavily "watered down" national broadband internet network...
... and, 9 years later, the NBN Corporation working on this inferior network, had to be "bailed out" by the same government that offered the "watered down" version, to the tune of over 14 billion U.S. dollars, causing the single-worst infrastructure disaster in this nation's history, a project that has now blown out to more than 35 billion U.S. dollars while still unfinished...
... while a significant proportion of households in rural areas have to put up with approximately 5mbit connections and frequent disruptions (with a permanent latency of about 0.6 seconds because, you know, SATELLITE)?
I'm sure you have a point and it's really interesting but he looks like a slightly hipper version of Jeb.
Anthony Walker
kevin 07 mate
Christopher Hall
Just a friendly reminder, is all. One of the greatest leaders in the history of the world was stabbed in his proverbial back by "allies" who didn't want to keep up with his extraordinary work ethic, and Australia has subsequently become more of a third-world nation than a first-world one.
William Green
you are doing God's work mate
he is the last PM i actually liked, Turnbull is a centrist cuck jew who is too scared to do anything and Abbot was stupid
Luis Thomas
That's because of all the immigrants
Kayden Nguyen
>it's that antifa kid who keeps samefaging again
Owen Reyes
Rudd wanted to sell the country out to the Chinese just as much as the Liberals do, he just wanted to slap a nominal tax on the mining industry at the height of the bubble.
If you actually listen to him shill for the Chinese in his new role in Washington D.C, arguing for their inclusion into the IMF, it's absolutely disgusting.
Luke Davis
Kevin Rudd really was fantastic and of course, people afraid of change fucked it all up.
Jayden Howard
Kevin Rudd was a good leader for Aus and made his country proud
Jayden Davis
Remember when he apologized to the abos because 50 years prior the aus government saved abo children from their unfit mothers as they did with whites? He was a good cuck.
Ian Myers
ITT: God-Tier PM's only
David Nguyen
Nah I felt like it was a deserved apology, the early settlers did do some pretty fucked up things in the 17-1800s.
Noah Reyes
This, he is yet another globalist shill
Mason Bell
He was alright, for a China-loving cuck. Maybe one day we'll have someone half as good as he was, but considering the state of politics in this country I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Carter Gomez
Its not a real country as there isn't a president. Also there are inner earth humans who live for thousands of years and have spaceships and could vapourise all the surface cities if they wanted to.
Mason Morales
>the early settlers did do some pretty fucked up things in the 17-1800s. Firstly, that's not what the apology was about. Secondly, no they didn't.
Kevin Sanchez
mining boom you retard
Alexander Phillips
The same PM that saw our borders flooded with Asylum Seekers?
>set up strategies to ensure that Australia was the only country in the world that made it through the Global Financial Crisis
Rudd didn't singehandedly establish a massive resources sector with a booming demand in China and India. It was our exports that kept us floated.
And yeah Labor's NBN was great. If you had it. Which most people didn't, because it was so far behind schedule that it would've been completely outdated by the time it was rolled out.
But hey, at least Rudd wasn't Gillard.
Hudson Torres
>the only country in the world that made it through the Global Financial Crisis completely intact
Ahem.
Anthony Bailey
Labor are too progressive now, they're pushing this 'safe schools' ideology.
Ayden Anderson
Fuck off Labor scum. We only got through the gfc so well because howard was saving us so much money
If it was labor then we"d be twice as bad off
Nicholas Hill
>the early settlers did do some pretty fucked up things in the 17-1800s.
It wasn't even for that, it was for the "stolen generation".
Even if it were for colonisation, the government should only have apologised if the aboriginals thanked whitey and admitted that they were backward before our arrival instead of muh noble savage.
If anything racial tensions are worse now than ever before (though that's largely got little do do with Rudd and has to do with the importation of American racial politics). The little shits aren't even grateful for the apology, they just continue their autistic screeching. All it's done is guilt trip whitey yet again.
Landon Wilson
That's all well and good, but he looks like a white male. Having Juden running your country is much better for everyone.
Christian Lewis
Good thing we have Turncuck now, he's as crypto as they come
Justin Kelly
Does Australia get resource-cucked pretty badly? From what I remember the country is loaded out the wazoo with a couple of useful minerals and a lot of them aren't even allowed to be used or accessed because of the government.
Cooper Garcia
>crypto
Ryan Sanders
>and a lot of them aren't even allowed to be used or accessed because of aboriginals
fixed
Levi King
yep, aussies mine them and sell them to chinks, cheap as chips.
Joseph Evans
You could probably even make the point to the government that mining would at least give them jobs but Abos wouldn't work anyway kek
Logan Reed
The disgusting thing is that when they stabbed him In the back the whole hate campaign was based on "He works too hard.. works all night and staff can't keep up"
The guy had trump level of energy when it came to his job and the lazy politicians hated it and used it against him as a negative.
Drawing closer ties to china is what helped Aussies go through the GFC.. not many ppl remember now but the entire world had crazy jobless rates while Aussies were doing ok. I liked his china strategy .. made Australia think more about Asia and less about being Burger cucks. Similar to how trump is with Russia .. he didn put out a friendly hand to china rather then listening to the bullshit arguements "bah they Chinese commies"
Daniel Taylor
>voting for labor
pretty fucking gay t b h
Evan Williams
Yeh we get fucked
>sell minerals and gas overseas >buy it back at highest market price
Dominic Lee
>Pepperidge Farm remembers
You suck American cultural hegemony cock. You fucking yanky cunt; GTFO.
"SHAME! SHAME! SHAME" Derrin Hinch (but you probably don't remember such an Australian reference, you dumb cunt).
Justin Lewis
>got rid of White Australia policy >god tier
what's with all the leaf-tier aussies lately?
Carson Rivera
I remember him laying the groundwork for a failed infrastructure project that the government had no right to be undertaking and which the private sector would have done FOR FREE, faster and more profitably.
Jayden Lee
>which the private sector would have done FOR FREE why do it for free when you can get paid. topkek is it not.
Nathan White
>among the rubble, only coober pedy remains
Jeremiah Barnes
COAL IS THE ONLY THING THAT GOT US THROUGH A RECESSION. LABOR SHILLS FUCK OFF
Josiah Howard
Rudd was a fucking fqggot
Isaiah Martin
Dear socialist scum.
Australia was relatively unscathed by the GFC because we were in a good fiscal position due to three terms of Howard (we had no net debt) and because the mining investment boom actually accelerated post 2009.
The socialist policies of Rudd-Gillard-Rudd have damaged the economy and put us in the weakened state we are now in.
The NBN is a classic example of why socialism doesn't work. It was never going to work and it never will work. Ultimately the NBN is an internet tax. We will pay more than necessary for the internet for many decades due to that debacle.
Levi Bailey
He had no allies, he is/was a complete arsehole that nobody liked.
Jordan Richardson
I'm still fuming m8. Honestly turned me off ALP forever.
Robert Sanders
His trip to the Knesset was memorable.
Eli Perry
You are kidding right?
Liberals was meant to be finished by Jan 1st 2017.
.... still waiting..
Fucking ignorant cunt. No wonder Australias turning to shit with cunts like you spouting bullshit opinions.
GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT CUNT
Brandon Stewart
>hurr my teacher told me liberals are the rich mans party
Tony Abbott was not stupid, it was turnbull that fucked up the NBN when he was communications minister. Abbott was stabbed in the back by Turnbull and now the major parties are bleeding voted toi third parties, hence why they were so popular in the senate election and will be in the QLD election
Dylan Phillips
Howard was a fucking disaster of a leader. The cunt sold off all of our government assets. Justs look at this shit:
Absolutely fucking disgusting. The bastard should hang for his war crimes, too.
Caleb Reyes
Move out of your parent's suburban home and into a location that has decent internet ya fuxking poofta.
Josiah Green
Mate. Governments owning assets is more succinctly known as socialism and it doesn't work, it's never worked and it never will work.
As for war crimes. Yeah, the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions were bullshit, I'll give you that one.
Daniel Foster
I'm less than 10 minutes from the city. We don't have it cos liberals are punishing the Labor electorate.
Daniel Gray
I hardly think it's fair to credit Howard for being a good financial manager when the only trick he had was selling off assets.
Logan Jackson
The guy is an A grade fuckwit, and legitimately deserved everything he got. It wasn't because "oh he works too much, we can't keep up!", it was because he was a cunt to everyone, acted like a fuckwit to absolutely everyone, and then bitched like a woman on her period when people called him out for being such a cunt.
Deadset would throw tantrums if anyone disagreed with him because he's such a narcissist, and when people would call bullshit on his tantrums, would go sulk in the corner for half an hour.
Won't say how I know this, because nobody would believe me anyways.
End of story, he is/was a shitcunt. And this is coming from someone that thinks Gillard is an incompetent fuck, and hates basically all political parties.
Evan Williams
He would have us full of refugees, fag marriages and sold us even quicker to China then Turnjew
Bring back Based Tones
Cooper Jackson
Good. Serves you right for thinking the NBN was a good idea.
Howard is a politician and politicians are basically scum as a general rule, but if you compare the budget balancing ways of Howard-Costello with the profligacy of the ALP, it's night and day.
Mason Robinson
>Liberals don't have it finished >but my preferred party would have
Fuck off YoungJordie, your YouTube videos arnt even funny you shitcunt
Parker Long
Rudd was a piece of shit. If you retards actually thought some cunt was going to lay fibre the entire length of our island you are plain retarded. Fucking think about it you dumb fuck socialist cucks.
>Same size as burger land >1/12th the population >Monopoly telco because commie government owned the telco before privatizing it, once again proving governments should never own a fucking business >All would be magically completed in 9 years with a budget nobody believed it could be done with
Ian Bell
Just tell us how ya know ya wanker, ill believe you.
Ian Jackson
B-b-but Kevin 07 said it would!!!
Connor Watson
Date Had fibre Used Fibre % Dec 2011 18,200 2,315 13% Sep 2012 32,295 6,400 20% Dec 2012 72,400 10,400 14% Mar 2013 96,060 18,800 20% Jun 2013 207,500 33,600 16%
That data is all under the labor government. 20% peak uptake oh boy. Sure was good of the government to borrow 40B for this infrastructure. Government owning business is good though guys. Keep voting for it you communist cucks.
Aaron Powell
Family member worked pretty close with him. Was a department head, and would often proof-read and fact check some of his speeches.
Seriously, from what said family member has said, Pollies don't give a single fuck about us civilians, because they're just in it for the money, pensions, and the whole narcissism bullshit, and being able to say "look what I did when I was PM/Department Head/general fuckwit"
If even 5% of what my family had been told by said family member got out, there would be riots, and at least half the current pollies would be in prison and/or lynched.
Blake Mitchell
The only people who like Kevin Rudd are people that have never met him.
Biggest BS artist in Australian Politics for a very long time.
Have a look at the 280-odd million he gifted channels 7, 9 and 10 around the time of his soaring popularity, when he could do no wrong in the media's eyes.
He's a slimy little cunt.
Luke Walker
>Australia was the only country in the world that made it through the Global Financial Crisis completely intact
*clears throat*
Adrian Kelly
>intact
Thomas James
Canada makes Sweden look like the Third Reich.
Anthony Smith
Rudd was /ourguy/ all along. I'm sorry, Kev. You were too good for us. You're in a better place now, cursing those ratfuckers.
Ryan Harris
Like decided not to genocide and fix their iq by forcing breeding with whites.
Totally savage. I'd have stuck with genocide personally but British fail at that.
Camden Thomas
based kevin
followed by three useless PM's who all stabbed each other in the back
>but people say he wasn't good to work with glad to know we pick our leaders on the basis of office bitching
Jose Wright
Might is right.
Get the fuck off this board reddit cuck..
Connor Martin
>importing American racial politics
Why would you choose to import the most cancerous thing to ever come out of America?