Bring me the mountains, I wish to jodel

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and wife Therese Rein are flanked by Marcus and Nick at Cradle Mountain yesterday.
Picture: PAUL SCAMBLER
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PM and family taking a break in Tasmania
07 Jan, 2010 11:23 AM
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd took a break from the top job yesterday, flying into Tasmania for a family holiday with his wife and three children.
Exploring the surrounds of Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake late yesterday afternoon, Mr Rudd, alongside wife Therese Rein and children Nick, 23, and Marcus, 16, talked openly with a growing number of onlookers, as well as joking about the wild and windy conditions that greeted them.

The family usually spend holidays at home in Queensland, but Mr Rudd decided it was time to visit the state without undertaking official business.

“This is usually the only time of year we get the chance to take a holiday as a family, and it is really important to make sure these holidays happen,” Mr Rudd said.

“I have never visited Tasmania for a holiday, and it is somewhere the boys have always wanted to visit, and such a beautiful place.”

Mr Rudd said that during the family’s stay in the North-West, they would tackle a number of bushwalks, as well as enjoying the scenery, before travelling to Freycinet next week.

“I am sure we will do a few walks, but definitely no big expeditions,” he said as the family searched through a map of walking tracks.

– LAURA OLDFIELD

Comment:

Yes, the shoes the party of 4 was wearing on this Cradle Mountain walk was also the “tell all” about the reality of the PM’s feel for nature and his way to experience it.
Like: “Bring me the Mountains, I wish to jodel ” an old saying goes.
It may also indicate why a GUNNS smoke stack of some 200m (above sea level) in the East Tamar would potentially be OK for the PM, as long as there is ‘real action’ and a newly paved parking lot and a ribbon to cut.
That is the world the Rudd family seem to live in.

Oh, just imagine the pictures with our Kevin assisting his Therese on to these ‘mountains’ of trashed forests in the Tarkine Wilderness, in the Frankland in the current forest removal operations, south of the Arthur River.
Look at these images here, to understand: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I01sRXL-fxE

Tarkine: So this is The New Forest Industry – Tasmanian Times
Tarkine: So this is The New Forest Industry …
I feel sick (2) …. appears bigger than Tasmania’s largest open cut mine in the heart of the ‘Tarkine’. …
www.oldtt.pixelkey.biz/…/tarkine-so-this-is-the-new-forest-industry-…-i-feel-sick-2 –
Tasmanian Times
11 Dec 2009 … THE Tarkine wilderness area in Tasmania’s far North-West has been …
I feel sick (1): … www.oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php/article/protection-move-for-tarkine
But then again, he was on that long track in PNG a few years ago, together with the 7 TV crew and … don’t we forget that :

Kevin Rudd compares himself to Arnold Schwarzenegger | Herald Sun
20 Sep 2007 … “Kevin Rudd is obviously healthy, he’s walked the Kokoda Trail, there is no one in this place who thinks he is anything other than fighting fit …
www.heraldsun.com.au/…/kevin-rudd…to…/story-e6frf7l6-1111114458709

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PM and family taking a break in Tasmania
07 Jan, 2010 11:23 AM
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd took a break from the top job yesterday, flying into Tasmania for a family holiday with his wife and three children.
Exploring the surrounds of Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake late yesterday afternoon, Mr Rudd, alongside wife Therese Rein and children Nick, 23, and Marcus, 16, talked openly with a growing number of onlookers, as well as joking about the wild and windy conditions that greeted them.

The family usually spend holidays at home in Queensland, but Mr Rudd decided it was time to visit the state without undertaking official business.

“This is usually the only time of year we get the chance to take a holiday as a family, and it is really important to make sure these holidays happen,” Mr Rudd said.

“I have never visited Tasmania for a holiday, and it is somewhere the boys have always wanted to visit, and such a beautiful place.”

Mr Rudd said that during the family’s stay in the North-West, they would tackle a number of bushwalks, as well as enjoying the scenery, before travelling to Freycinet next week.

“I am sure we will do a few walks, but definitely no big expeditions,” he said as the family searched through a map of walking tracks.

– LAURA OLDFIELD

comments
Obviously this wasnt a taxpayer funded trip.The cheapscate wont spend more than a few bucks on a trip to Tassie when he has to pay the Bill.
But why come here and scare our wildlife. Surely the Greens could have done something.Shame,Shame,shame.

Posted by Wally th worker, 8/01/2010 9:37:16 AM

Did they actually go an walk around the lake? As a bare minimum of what you can do there.
Or like many tourists just drive up to the Dove Lake car park and think they have now “done” Cradle Mountain.

Posted by Stephen, 8/01/2010 11:31:02 AM

From the shoes the party is wearing I would say they have just been driven to the car park and done a phota shot.
Why does Rudd have to wear David Attenborough attire on his ‘walks’ – another me too.

Posted by david of emerald, 9/01/2010 6:33:56 AM
Frank Strie