“It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.”

— Kevin Rudd

Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity', 9 July 2009, 15 November 2013, Perth Now http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/rudd-bamboozles-germans-with-programmatic-specificity/story-e6frg12c-1225747867748, Addressing the German press and Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, 2009 2009

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