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Kevin Michael Rudd AC, born on 21 September 1957 in Nambour, Queensland, is an Australian diplomat, former politician, and leading international authority on China.
He served as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again briefly from June to September 2013.
Raised on a dairy farm in nearby Eumundi as the youngest of four children of share farmer Albert Rudd and nurse Margaret Rudd, he experienced significant hardship after his father’s death in 1969 from complications following a car accident, when Kevin was just 11.