Thread by @MrKRudd

November marks the 15th anniversary of the 2007 election. I'm constantly asked where to find an authentic #KEVIN07 t-shirt. So we're marking the occasion by firing up the printers! All profits to @Murdoch_RC's campaign for a #MurdochRoyalCommission. kevinrudd.com/shirts

If you’re in Queensland, I’ll be getting together with the @QLDLabor family for dinner at the Gabba on Sunday 20 November. I’m looking forward to it. Tickets here: form.123formbuilder.com/6275077/form

If you can’t make it in Brisbane, I’ll be visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Newcastle later this month. Come say hello. avoidablewar.com/events

I'm proud of the #KEVIN07 campaign, but more proud of what we achieved in govt:
1 📉 world's most effective stimulus that avoided GFC global recession
2 🏗️ biggest infrastructure build since WW2
3 🌉 established Infrastructure Australia
4 📈 low debt & lower taxes than Howard

5 💻 launched a full-fibre NBN
6 💵 cut income tax for all low- and middle-income earners
7 💰 lifted super guarantee to 12% for more secure retirement
8 🧓 biggest pension rise in 100yrs
9 🍼 introduced Australian paid parental leave
10 👶 cut childcare fees by 23%

11 🏘️ built/refurbished ~100,000 social homes and emergency accommodation
12 💻 950,000 new computers for all year 9-12 students
13 ✏️ first national school curriculum
14 📋 first national testing for literacy and numeracy

15 🏫 biggest school building program with 3000 libraries, 3000 classrooms & 2800 assembly halls
16 🩺 restructured hospital funding to 50-50 state & federal
17 🔬 built 24 regional cancer centres & 5 major medical research centres
18 📦 world's first plain packaging of tobacco

19 🚑 new national organ authority that doubled donation rates
20 ♿️ launched the NDIS
21 🦠 full-scale national pandemic exercise before covid
22 💔 apologised to the stolen generations
23 🔧 launched closing the gap with Indigenous Australians

24 📚 co-funded the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation
25 🏳️‍🌈 abolished same-sex discrimination in 87 federal laws
26 💸 regulated financial advisers
27 🏛️ rebuilt Australian Public Service independence - no purges & declining senior political appointments

28 📄 reformed Freedom of Information
29 📺 launched ABC Kids
30 📡 restored and increased ABC funding
31 ✔️ independent panels to appoint ABC Board
32 💡 20% renewable energy target by 2020 (now 34%)
33 🌍 ratified the Kyoto protocol

34 🗊 twice legislated carbon price (blocked by the Greens)
35 ☀️ subsidised 100,000 home solar systems
36 🌳 launched the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
37 🐋 successfully took Japan to the International Court to stop Antarctic whaling

38 🌏 co-founded G20 with Australia as a member
39 🇺🇳 won seat on UN Security Council
40 🌐 gained Australian chairmanship of the Commonwealth
41 📝 secured Copenhagen Accord on climate
42 🎖️ raised defence spending to 2% of GDP

43 🚢 Defence White Paper launched biggest naval expansion since WW2
44 🛬 lifted aid spending by $2Bn/yr towards 0.5% GNI
45 🧱 doubled Pacific aid, restructured as Partnerships for Development
46 🏝️ secured chairmanship of Pacific Islands Forum

47 👀 introduced Pacific Aid Transparency Initiative
48 ✈️ brought troops home from Iraq & ended deployments to Afghanistan
29 💱 launched free trade talks with India & Korea
50 🙋 granted visas for Chinese dissidents
and much more.

Some people falsely believe Murdoch supported Labor in 2007. The truth is Murdoch fought hard to stop us, including digging dirt on my family and spreading lies about my wife. When it didn't work, Murdoch hedged his bets with a late and disingenuous endorsement.

Finally, it’s great to now see so many Rudd Govt ministers bringing their experience into the @AlboMP Govt. Three-quarters of the cabinet served in my government. They are a first-rate team doing a superb job for Australian working families, running laps around Dutton’s mob.