BREAKING: Wrong note: Rudd’s latest p arty with $44k taxpayer-funded song

Email Kevin Rudd celebrated the one-year anniversary of the US Embassy with a 200-guest knees up, complete with a specially-commissioned song. And the bill for ‘Unbreakable’ is all yours.

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Breaking News Alert Wrong note: Rudd’s latest party with $44k taxpayer-funded song Kevin Rudd celebrated the one-year anniversary of the US Embassy with a 200-guest knees up, complete with a specially-commissioned song. And the bill for ‘Unbreakable’ is all yours... READ MORE   More news Adam Reynolds breaks his silence: The real reason he left Sydney Broncos captain Adam Reynolds has broken his silence over the tough decision to relocate his family to Brisbane, leaving behind Sydney and “all we had known”. READ MORE   Cleary breaks camp for Fowler rendezvous, slams ‘sad’ Matildas criticism Nathan Cleary made a mad dash in the US to see his partner, Mary Fowler, and threw his support behind the Matildas, hitting out at the ‘sad’ and ‘unnecessary’ criticism from Marty ... READ MORE   ‘Mummification’: Shock 911 Hackman call; deaths ‘suspicious’ Harrowing new details have emerged from the 911 call made after the “mummified” bodies Gene Hackman and his wife were found. Listen to the call. 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