#Kevin Rudd

[channeledhistory]

[tinylilvalery]

This is my Roman Empire

[weevil-of-australia]

They always talk about the CIA operations regarding coups in Latin America but they never talk about the CIA operations regarding coups in Australia.

You, Tumblr user Cryptotheism. How do you feel about mkultra?

Might be controversial but I think it was bad

[brexiiton]

Kevin Rudd's official prime minister portrait revealed

By Lucy Slade, August 10, 2023 - 5:43PM

Kevin Rudd (prime minister from 2007-2010 and June 2013-September 2013)

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd's portrait has been unveiled in Canberra today, 10 years after he left office.

The 26th prime minister's portrait was painted by official prime ministerial artist Ralph Heimans.

Rudd is currently Australia's ambassador to the United States.

The portrait features Rudd with a white beard, which he did not have while he was in office.

The portrait comes long after he left the Lodge, with later prime ministers Malcom Turnbull and Scott Morrison yet to receive an official portrait.

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[dragonlover44]

that send off for Antony Green was so sweet and everyone holds him with the highest respect possible. he will leave such a hole in the election cycle now he retired.

[pinkcarsupremacy]

Bro when is the wedding fr... they better have that wedding chappel at the Las Vegas paddock again just for these two 😭

[mikyapixie]

๏ 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚

๏ 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐮 𝐋𝐢𝐮 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠-𝐂𝐡𝐢

๏ 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫

๏ 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐳 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧

๏ 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐑𝐮𝐝𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧

๏ 𝐖𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭

๏ 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐣𝐢𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫

๏ 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧

𝐈𝐧 𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲

[buttonspushingthemselves]

"I dare you to fuck me." is such a raw line and I cannot believe it's from the 1999 New Year's Eve retro nostalgia romcom 200 Cigarettes

[danyxpop]

🌃Backstreet Boys: SNL50 Concert!🌃

I still can't get over the fact Paul Rudd, Jon Hamm, Jerry Seinfeld and Keegan Michael Key know the words to "I Want It That Way". So cute! I can't. 🙈🩷🍭

[shr3dhead]

moodboards for stupid movies i like

[djungleskogs]

hey guys can you do me a favour and tell me where you’re from and what you call this game? it’s the one where you have to bounce a small ball between four players and stay within your square. the squares might have different names (king, queen, etc) depending on how you played

[fordreviews]

📽️ The Object of My Affection (1998)

I watched this whole thing, but I honestly wasn’t a huge fan. It’s just sad. The whole premise is kind of messed up and unbelievable. Don’t believe that it’s a love story. I don’t have much to say about this one and I wouldn’t really recommend it.

Sex/nudity: 2/10 (implied sex between a gay couple, almost sex between a man and woman, kissing, talk of both hetero and homo relationships)

Language: 4/10 (more than one f-word but I don’t remember how many, other profanities as well)

Violence: 0/10 (I don’t remember any violence at all)

Overall rating: 3/10

[ljones41]

Unpopular Opinion:  “ANT-MAN AND THE WASP:  QUANTUMANIA”

I never saw “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in the movie theaters last February.  I’m watching it on DisneyPlus instead.   After viewing it, I wish I had seen it in the theaters.  It’s not a bad movie.  In fact . . . I think it’s pretty good.  Yes, it has some flaws.  What movie doesn’t?  But I think it’s a lot better than the second film in the franchise, 2018′s “Ant-Man and the Wasp”.  Why on earth did Kevin Feige release this movie in February, instead of mid-to-late July, which is the usual release slot for the Ant-Man movies?

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Better Man, a Robbie Williams biopic where the British singer is played by a CGI monkey, is among the Australian film productions released in the United States this year.

(Photo supplied: Paramount Pictures)

Australian indie horror movie Talk to Me was shot in Adelaide and grossed $US48.3 million in the US and Canada.

(Photo supplied: A24)

Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story, the debut movie from Australian comedians Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen, premiered on CBS in America in November.

(Photo: Lisa Tomasetti / Stan)

Australian filmmaker Anupam Sharma says industry insiders are 'taken aback" by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on movies 'produced in foreign lands.'

(Watch 5-min. video interview with Anupam Sharma in ABC News article, below.)

Australian film industry's future in doubt as Trump announces 'chilling' tariffs

US President Donald Trump has announced a 100 per cent tariff on movies "produced in foreign lands" in a post on his right-wing social media platform Truth Social.

He called out other countries offering incentives, saying it was a "concerted effort" to attract American film production to their shores, and describing it as a "National Security threat ... messaging and propaganda".

Screen Producers Australia CEO Matthew Deaner said the announcement "will send shock waves worldwide".

"For the Australian industry, it reinforces the need for the government to focus immediately and swiftly on building a resilient local industry that can withstand global shocks like this."

By Hannah Story - ABC Arts

ABC News - 5 May 2025

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Australian ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles.

(Photo: Milken Institute)

Bluey, the hit Australian TV children’s cartoon show, will be turned into a full-length feature film.

(Watch 9News 2-min. video re Bluey animation film production in The Age news article, below.)

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

(Photo: Bloomberg)

‘A tax on Bluey’: Rudd mocks Trump’s movie tariffs

Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, ridiculed President Donald Trump’s proposed movie tariffs at a high-powered executive conference in Los Angeles and reminded business leaders that Trump tried to place import taxes on uninhabited islands.

“I don’t think we want to see a tax on Bluey,” Rudd said, referring to the ABC children’s program that became a worldwide hit.

“What happens if we all lock down our countries with competitive, punitive arrangements against each other’s movies? Movies are the way in which we kind of understand each other more. So I’d be all for opening this up.”

Trump announced this week he was planning to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all films made overseas as a means of shoring up the US film and television industry.

By Michael Koziol

The Age - May 8, 2025

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[help-me-find-a-name-please-lol]

apparently I'm a month behind on the news but. finding out that tucker carlson and clive palmer are going to be touring Australia on the first day of Pride Month was not on my bingo card for 2024.

but here we are 🙃

err ... happy Pride? yay.

[brick-van-dyke]

Okay, I don't usually do this but I stopped reading halfway through the replies by around the third or so post. I need to really make something clear here; totalitarianism thrives off of division, presumed power struggles between marginalised groups and the fear that the lesser evil is all that prevents you from being next. Historically, we have seen this in many different dictatorships and regimes. Many analysts, writers and political advocates have warned of this in their works; 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games are a few fictional examples of using real world events as inspiration for heir dystopian systems. Every regime in these stories all use this exact method; fear to suppress resistance and hope for something better than he status quo. This needs to be considered before any of the above is even touched; are you acting out of fear?

It's okay to be afraid, I know that sounds contradictory to what I just said but it's important we understand that. It's valid, because this is scary, totalitarian regimes are terrifying. But that doesn't mean we should act out o that fear, because it's exactly that which these types of governments use to suppress their people and prevent potential uprisings. So, where does that leave us?

I'm Australian, but even I would be effected if Trump were elected. Even so, the problem is that I only say that because it's "worse" than what I have right now, which is still a fascist, oppressive government that has been controlled for literal years by a fascist totalitarian rogue state that switches our prime minister's when they don't align with the US's interests. While Biden has been in power, Australia has passed anti gay, anti trans, anti disability, anti indigenous laws and the labour government still acts as if it wants me and people like me dead. I'm not helped by anyone voting Trump out by choosing Harris because the "lesser evil" is exactly what ensures the next "Trump" will get in and ensures the system itself functions as intended; through fear. I don't want Trump in, but it will be a continuation of something much deeper and sinister to allow this system to use our fear of Trump to ensure even more fascists can take power. That is just the reality of totalitarianism and how the US has evidently functioned as one for generations, no matter if you do decide to vote Harris out of fear and you feel that this was the best you could do, that fear and it's very purposeful usage cannot be denied.

So, what do we do? "Well all we can do is vote so we can't let them take that power away by not voting!" You're right about not letting them take out right to vote! But, no, voting isn't all you can do. And especially in a situation where you're denied the right to vote (which is literally what the US does both in its own elections and it's interference in other elections) I think that should be remembered. The right to vote and choose who runs a country is something that needs to be protected; which is why we ought to have an actual democracy and not this fascist system that pretends there's a presidential race when there's just a magical chairs game with the same group of fascists. They'll be back, no matter how much we vote them out. If not now, the next and the next and the next will ensure that only those we fear take a seat while a lesser evil takes the other. What we need to do is remember we're people, and so are they.

They're not so powerful as to enforce a police state when police strike after being overworked (as seen in Australia currently with protests, it's causing us to burn out their enforcement and physical ability to stop us), or throw their military at its own citizens when the military burn their uniforms (as seen in the US) and leave. They can't enforce power when the people that make up that power refuse to comply anymore. Yes, the government is powerful, but don't forget that they are only human and this is a system that relies on the compliance of other people; including each and every one of us. You and the people around you rallying together are powerful too, refuse to comply and cripple the power at these people's disposal. Make a command meaningless by that command falling on ears that refuse to listen anymore.

Sure, you can vote Harris, or not vote, whatever. She'll be voted out next election for a fascist so as much as you say you did your part, you only did for a term, and then we'll vote in another Harris to stop that fascist and wonder why nothing every changes. The US empire is a totalitarian regime that doesn't genuinely allow democratic voting and will reinstate whoever they like by next election, Trump will run again and we'll cry about the lesser evil again and we'll wonder why the US is so dystopian despite voting in the "right" person and why the policies only get worse and worse. It didn't happen overnight, it's always been like this. Trump is the result of something deeper, not a sudden new shift from something good or normal. Trump came from a place that creates Trumps, so no he is not the last. There'll be more and worst, and you'll wonder why your vote didn't prevent it all over again.

If you're truly scared Trump? Turn that fear into anger and and turn that anger into hope; take to the streets and organise, think about what YOU can do, not what a representative could do if you vote for them enough times. Talk to your local activists and local civil rights groups, refuse to comply, refuse to serve in the military and refuse everything you can refuse until the US regime falls. Resist, because votes don't matter in the eyes of a government that can easily switch out whoever is voted in when they go against the system (and yes that has happened here in Australia and in many other countries too, so maybe think about if that happens to your governments too and how much value your votes really have in a system that can dismiss and deny that right). You as an individual can do SO SO MUCH! You don't just only have a say when you write a name on paper, you can do so much more so don't sell yourself short. Gather together, remember the strength we have in numbers and the power we all have as people.

TLDR: Remember who the real enemy is.

If Trump wins they'll let Israel destroy Gaza's entire Healthcare system including American-built hospitals & burn patients alive in their beds, that's already happening? Well if Trump wins they'll let Israel send their soldiers who've killed in Gaza to study at American universities and brag about their war crimes to the students who's families they've killed. That's already happening? Well if Trump wins he'll send American soldiers, missile interception systems, and naval task forces to stop anyone on earth from attempting to enforce the responsibility-to-protect under the genocide convention that the US was a signatory to. That's already happening? Well if Trump is elected he'll hurt ME.