Kevin Rudd ‘reminds’ him to use honorific, claims senior US senator

Is Kevin Rudd insisting that stakeholders in Washington call him “Dr. Rudd”? You might get that impression from a speech last week in his honor by a senior Democratic U.S. senator.

Virginia Senator Mark Warner stood up in the US Congress last Tuesday Say some very warm parting words about RuddHe will leave his post at the Australian embassy in Washington at the end of next month. Warner, the former governor of Virginia and deputy chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, said Rudd was “one of the sharpest minds on the diplomatic stage” and “a statesman whose tenure strengthened ties between Australia and the United States”.