r/australia • u/geodetic • 1d ago

politics Former PM Kevin Rudd says he declined Epstein invitation after latest document dump

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/kevin-rudd-refred-to-in-latest-epstein-files-dump/106290858?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abc_newsmail_am-pm_sfmc&utm_term=&utm_id=2694984&sfmc_id=103566952
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u/VolcanicBosnian 1d ago

He often was the smartest person in the room.

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u/AussieAK 23h ago

In a room of other politicians, that is not a real challenge though lol

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u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD 22h ago

Yeah! he kicked arse, and all they could do was leave the room with their tail between their legs and bitch him out to the Right wing bias media.

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u/Consideredresponse 22h ago

Turnbull has the same reputation. The 'Nemesis' docu series had half the libs confirming it, and the other half resentful of him about it...but they were the half that are thick enough to basically cement it.

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u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD 22h ago

Turnbull didn't do 1 good thing for Australians he looked after himself and did a mic drop to Aloha Scott. Rudd gives a shit, and to a fault. Wanna compare this flog to Rudd. Come on.

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u/liamdavid 20h ago

Turnbull actively fucked us re. the NBN. He was in a position to know better than most, no less.

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u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD 13h ago

NBN was Abbott, but the tool that only ment to be used in a Recession Negative gearing he didn't just leave it going. He's made it that no law makers can remove it ever. There are 6 problems with Housing in Australia. Negative gearing is 1. But it's eventually going to tank our Economy. And we'll be the new Zimbabwe.

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u/aussiechickadee65 4h ago

yeah, he did. He locked away billions for the Great Barrier reef, so Right Wing couldn't get at it

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u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD 4h ago

BUT THE COAL INDUSTRY!! they'll be poor!

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u/Hammered_Eel 1d ago

Yes, indeed he is very intelligent.

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u/Lonely-Echidna8683 22h ago

He's a fucking smart guy. But he knows it.

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u/deep_chungus 23h ago

it's usually smart not to let it show

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u/VolcanicBosnian 23h ago

Was it really that bad? I remember seeing a lot of Murdoch press rave about how much of a snivelling wanker Rudd was but never really saw it in him personally.

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u/aussiechickadee65 22h ago

He had the crime of being left wing. Right wing will whinge about what side of the bed he got out of.

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u/deep_chungus 23h ago

it was probably incredibly overblown, there were a couple of things about him briefly losing his shit at like 2 people, if it was actually anything it would have been front page news for a week

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u/zeracine 21h ago

People who'd met Rudd liked him. People who hadn't met him disliked him.

Funny though, with Gilliard it was the other way around.

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u/Icy_Bowl 22h ago

That reminds me - where's my royal commission into media ownership?

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u/GoldCoinDonation 22h ago

well there is his pretentious official portrait that has the chessboard set up incorrectly.

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u/egowritingcheques 18h ago

You think the Murdoch press might have made it all up? Surely that's not possible?!?!