Kevin Rudd's second week on the campaign trail – in pictures

It was a 4am start for the media following Rudd, sunrise between Brisbane and Darwin then onto Kununurra
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Rudd gives an interview on the press plane, as journalists sitting in the seats in front try to duck out of shot
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Kevin Rudd takes a seat next to Laura Jayes of Sky News on the press plane
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Rudd walking with traditional owners on the Ord River Dam
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Kevin Rudd at the Amaroo early childhood centre in Townsville, concentrating hard on his brushstrokes, Eli seems more interested in the cameramen
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Kevin Rudd is mobbed by students as he tours St Mary's College trade training centre in Cairns Far North Queensland
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Kevin Rudd talks with members of the 4th Field Regiment, Royal Australia Artillery at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville
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Kevin Rudd meeting with members of the 4th Field Regiment, Royal Australia Artillery at Lavarack Barracks in Townsville
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Rudd attempts to pay for a beer at the campaign launch for Bronwyn Taha the ALP candidate for Dawson in Queensland
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Rudd holds five month old Paddy Wilkinson at the ARC centre for cognition and its disorders at Macquarie University. Paddy received his cochlear implants the same day
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Rudd and Abbott take questions from the panel during the first election deabte
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Rudd looks on at the first election debate
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Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott shake hands pre-debate at the National Press Club in Canberra
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Rudd and his family attend church in Canberra on Sunday morning ahead of the first election debate
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