Prime Minister Kevin Rudd grabs the remarkably popular image among younger Australians as he gets mobbed in so called "Beatles-mania-style" by nearly 200 kids and teenagers with their near-hysterical screams.

Mr. Rudd has initiated a battering during the recent opinion polls, with his personal approval rating this week dropping to its lowest level since he won office.

After addressing 100 youngsters with type 1 diabetes, Mr. Rudd then entered into the parliament's marble foyer to have a photograph with them.

The foyer actually bustled with other 70-odd visiting school children - mostly teenage girls.

The President of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) had promised to give $500,000 of her own money to assist the research work related to finding the cure of the disease.

The raised arms landed the teenagers into excited and barely-controlled jumping on the foyer's staircase.

The recent figures reveal that there are about 140,000 people in Australia surviving with type-1 diabetes, a genetic condition that sees the body destroy cells that produce insulin.