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November 3rd, 2011 
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Kevin Rudd has dismissed reports of an imminent leadership challenge against Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Kevin Rudd is reportedly being urged to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership this month.
DISGRACE: Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd goes on the attack against a Coalition ‘trying to score points off the Obama visit’. Picture: AFP
Source: The Courier-Mail
FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd has labelled the Coalition a disgrace for trying to score political points off US President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit.
Federal parliament yesterday formally approved plans for Mr Obama to address a special joint sitting during his first visit to Australia this month.
But the Opposition could not resist using the routine lower house motion to extend sitting hours to take a swing at Labor over leadership speculation.
Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne drew a comparison to the 1991 visit of George Bush Snr.
“He left the United States when Bob Hawke was the prime minister and arrived when Paul Keating was the prime minister,” Mr Pyne told Parliament.
“I wonder whether there will be similar parallels this time.
“I wonder if President Obama will leave the United States to visit Julia Gillard as prime minister and arrive to find that Stephen Smith or Kevin Rudd is actually occupying that chair.”
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Mr Rudd pounced on the “disgraceful” comments.
“This underlines fundamentally where those opposite stand on foreign policy priorities,” Mr Rudd said during question time.
Mr Rudd was also keen to remind everyone of comments two Coalition leaders – John Howard and Tony Abbott – have made about Mr Obama.
Mr Howard in 2007 warned a victory for Mr Obama in the 2008 election would be a victory for terrorists in Iraq.
Mr Abbott in 2008 said Mr Obama “sounds terrific but I don’t know what’s really there”.
Mr Obama’s visit to Canberra and Darwin coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Australia-United States alliance.
He will use his November 17 address to Parliament to reinforce how much America values the alliance.
Former US president George W Bush addressed Parliament when he visited in 2003.
Julia Gillard forged a warm relationship with Mr Obama in a trip to Washington this year.
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