Well he did secure press coverage saying things like “centre of world gravity just moved closer to Australia” and headlines such as Triumphant Rudd leaves as Obama battles on, so it’s no surprise the Prime Minister is looking like he’s just been told Christmas is coming twice this year.

Santa Claus is bringing you a diplomatic coup, Kevin

This set of photos were taken by News Ltd’s Kym Smith at the “family photo” gathering after the Pittsburgh G20 summit, which you can read more about here, here and here.

But have a look at the rest of the pics after the jump - in every one, Kevin Rudd has a grin that looks like it was painted on with a roller brush. Enter your captions and explanations in the comments.

Is it painted on? Rudd smiles while walking

Perhaps he has rubber bands in his mouth

I'll just button my jacket with an outrageous grin

The family photo - close-up of Kevin Rudd beneath

Close-up of the PM in the family photo

We don't need to add anything apart from...typical!

Thanks to www.thepunch.com.au

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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has rejected a call for his salary to be tripled to $1 million.

Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce made the call after the Remuneration Tribunal this week recommended a three per cent pay rise for MPs and senior public servants, a rise the Government has accepted.

Senator Joyce said it was a commercial reality that the highest officeholders should be "within sight" of the sort of money someone in business is paid for running a similar sized company.

One would be curious as to "how rubust" was his No! ;)

And of course, not forgetting that he, and all his fellow parliamentarians DO receive a pay rise! 3 percent of $300,000 is still a nice bonus!

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been a key participant at the United Nations summit on climate change. [AAP]

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Last Updated: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:47:00 +1000

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has issued an ultimatum to the country's opposition after playing a leading role at a forum on climate change at the United Nations.

Mr Rudd co-hosted a round-table discussion with 20 counties on the obstacles to a deal on climate change in December.

The talks ran for two hours and included China, South Korea and the Maldives.

Mr Rudd says there needs to be a deal between developed and developing countries.

"What the world needs is a grand bargain between the developed world and the developing world in order to reach an outcome for the planet as a whole," he said.

After the talks, Mr Rudd and climate change minister, Penny Wong, issued a October 19 deadline for the Federal Opposition to put forward its amendments on the Emissions Trading Scheme.

This story disappoints me.

And no, its not about my issues with emmissions trading or climate change.

This is our country's leader. Our Prime Minister. He has been in one of the spotlight's of the world, through the G20 and United Nations visit in New York this week.

It is unfortunate, in my opinio, that Rudd has used this as an opportunity for political grand-standing. Its not enough to just represent the interests of our nation to the world, but in his usual whim, point the finger back to local political issues my issuing this "ultimatum" to the Coalition.

What a crock! Grow up KRudd!

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Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

ZDNet - Zack Whittaker - ‎Sep 16, 2009‎

With the United Kingdom and New Zealand with independent filters in place, and Australia potentially soon after, Internet censorship is becoming common ...

Internet Filtering as the 1st line of Defense Christian Post

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Telegraph.co.uk

PM's site suffers Anonymous DDos attack

Computerworld Australia - ‎Sep 9, 2009‎

The disabling follows a 'Declaration of War' against the Australian government by Anonymous as a reprisal for its role in establishing an Internet filter. ...

Hacker attack on PM's website highlights online security challenge SmartCompany.com.au

Anonymous hacker group hits Australian Prime Minister with a DDoS ... SC Magazine UK

K-Rudd's Website Targetted By Anti-Censorship Hackers Anonymous Gizmodo Australia

ZDNet.com.au - The Australian

The Australian Internet Filter project in place by the current Federal Government (under Senator Conroy) is a touch topic for some. Basically its about censorship. Applying a model of "rating" web content against a set of criteria that determines whether or not Australian web users should have access or not.

This would be unbelievably difficult, without resorting to automation. Currently a panel of "censors" determine ratings on other media here in Australia. They watch, listen, play, read etc then determine what rating the content should have.

On the web, this would be impossible. There is just too much!

So the focus is narrowed.

Across the media, the loudest voices talk about "child protection". Filtering out the nasty child-abusive-paedophillic websites that are not so nice. They aren't very nice, I agree. I don't condone that sort of activity one bit.

But. If this internet filter is about child protection then I am concerned.

How much money has been and will be spent on this?

How much money and resources could be redirected to the real issue? Police, Child Protection authorities, Health, Families, Education to help stop the problem at the root rather than band-aid it and claim success.

Senator Conroy. Is this the man you want protecting YOUR children? He seems to want to. Is this right? I don't have all the answers. But I have my concerns.

What do you think?

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According to sources present, Mr Rudd said: "I don't care what you f---ers think!"

He then went on, singling out Senator David Feeney declaring, "You can get f---ed", before asking, "Don't you f---ing understand?"

Yet again (this is not the first and unlikely to be the last) our Prime Minister has demonstrated he is definitely the PM of Australia....that's POTTY MOUTH of Australia!

I don't mind people who swear, it happens. But Mr Rudd you represent our nation. You need the respect of our world's political and financial stage.

Outbursts over such insignificant tripe is just a signal to us all that maybe you are not the clever, clear-thinking, calm and professional "nerd" you like to be portrayed as. Sir, outburst of profanity is not "robust" conversation!

Get a bit of couth Mr PM, couth!

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A POLL shows a majority of voters approve of the Rudd Government's handling of the global economic crisis and support the continued spending of stimulus money.

The AC Nielsen poll, conducted to mark the first anniversary of the meltdown, shows 59 per cent approve of the Government's handling of the crisis, 46 per cent want the spending to continue as planned and 10 per cent say it should be increased.

The only comment I want to make about this is that its good to see that a random sample chosen by AC Nielsen just happened to be expert at macro-economics in relation to managing a countries financial situation. Of course the sample are expert enough to rate success of the currrent Government.

Or maybe they just approve of $900 bribery? Just my opinion.

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