PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd took a break from the top job yesterday, flying into Tasmania for a family holiday with his wife and three children.
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Exploring the surrounds of Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake late yesterday afternoon, Mr Rudd, alongside wife Therese Rein and children Nick, 23, and Marcus, 16, talked openly with a growing number of onlookers, as well as joking about the wild and windy conditions that greeted them.
The family usually spend holidays at home in Queensland, but Mr Rudd decided it was time to visit the state without undertaking official business.
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"This is usually the only time of year we get the chance to take a holiday as a family, and it is really important to make sure these holidays happen," Mr Rudd said.
"I have never visited Tasmania for a holiday, and it is somewhere the boys have always wanted to visit, and such a beautiful place."
Mr Rudd said that during the family's stay in the North-West, they would tackle a number of bushwalks, as well as enjoying the scenery, before travelling to Freycinet next week.
"I am sure we will do a few walks, but definitely no big expeditions," he said as the family searched through a map of walking tracks.
- LAURA OLDFIELD
