Canberra (Australia), Apr. 4: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd''s short temper and unreasonable demands have triggered an exodus of personal staff and a backlash from public servants.

The latest casualty is Rudd’s 78,000-dollar-a-year ex-butler John Fisher, dubbed "Jeeves" by the Opposition, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Rudd''s bullying style has come under close scrutiny after it was revealed he had reduced a young RAAF cabin attendant to tears during a VIP flight when she was unable to produce the right meal.

Melbourne, Apr 3: Australian premier Kevin Rudd’s prime ministerial email and mobile phone communications have been repeatedly targeted by Chinese spies directly.

Rudd and his travelling party were under constant cyber attack during his latest trip to China, in August last year, with authorities trying to access the laptop computers and mobile phones used by them, The Australian reported.

Melbourne, Apr 3: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised for behaving badly to a RAAF female flight attendant when he did not get the food he wanted on a VIP flight from Port Moresby to Canberra earlier this year.

Rudd has been deeply embarrassed by the disclosure of the incident, especially as he faced questions during a news conference after the G20 leaders'' summit in London.

Brisbane, Mar. 29 : A Chinese-Australian woman, who is at the centre of a top-level espionage inquiry met both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and former PM John Howard at a private dinner here in 2004.

Rudd is believed to have talked at length in Mandarin with Helen Liu, who is at the centre of allegations that the nation''s top spy organisation, the highly-secretive Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), tapped into the laptop of Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, without his knowledge.

New York, Mar. 26 : A New York strip club that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd once visited in his youth, has invited him and his wife Therese Rein to a special dinner.

It maybe recalled that Rudd had admitted to doing an infamous pole-dance at the same club.

Rolling out the red carpet, the strip club formerly known as Scores has offered to entertain the VIP - and his wife - with dinner and a private room during his time in Manhattan.

Sydney  - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had hoped that when the Group of 20 (G20) met in London in April, he would be among the few representing an economy still growing.

But the billions spent in November's stimulus package won't stop a second consecutive quarter of shrinkage that would qualify the Australian economy as being in a technical recession.