Commentary The loss of the federal seat of Aston by the centre-right Liberal party is, unfortunately, simply the latest chapter in a saga of defeat and decline. Consider the record. In the past few years, the Liberals have lost government in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. They have also failed to…
What the Liberal Party Must Do to Rebuild
Commentary The loss of the federal seat of Aston by the centre-right Liberal Party is, unfortunately, simply the latest chapter in a saga of defeat and decline. Consider the record. In the past few years, the Liberals have lost government in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. They have also failed to…
World Should Face ‘Reality’ on Climate Change, Says Former Australian PM
March 30, 2023
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BRISBANE—The world should face the reality that it may have got it wrong on climate change, says former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Howard, who served as the Australian leader from 1996 to 2007, made the comments while appealing to the centre-right Liberal Party not to abandon its position on critical issues, warning that conservatives had…
US ‘Throwing Allies Under a Bus’: Australia’s New Ambassador Kevin Rudd
January 4, 2023
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Australia’s incoming ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd urged the nation to stop throwing its allies “under a bus” if it wants to counter China’s economic influence in the Asia-Pacific. Rudd, a former Labor prime minister of Australia who will take up his diplomatic posting in March, said the United States had “one arm…
Queen Elizabeth ‘Most Accomplished Leader’: Former Australian PM
Former Prime Minister John Howard has remembered the late Queen Elizabeth II as the most accomplished leader he dealt with during his long political career. Howard, who met with the Queen on multiple occasions over 11 years as prime minister, paid tribute to the monarch’s sense of duty. “(She was) a great leader, an impeccable…
John Howard’s Common Sense
Commentary The season’s finale of “The ABC Of” program, televised on Aug. 2, featured an interview with former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Conducted by actor David Wenham, it enabled Howard to reflect on his remarkable career as a politician. Howard served in office from 1996 to 2007 making him the most successful prime minister in…
Who Are Australia’s Liberals?
April 26, 2022
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Commentary The 1987 election was the first I took an interest in. Seeing two politicians of conviction, Bob Hawke and John Howard, lay out their vision for this country in a real contest of ideas and philosophies, I became “hooked” on politics. As time went on, I realised that the centre-right Liberal Party had the…
Australia: The Unlucky Country?
March 31, 2022
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Commentary In 1964, Donald Horne published his iconic book “The Lucky Country.” Horne controversially wrote that “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about…
History Repeating Itself as Liberals Abandon Philosophical Roots
March 24, 2022
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Commentary In his autobiography, “Lazarus Rising,” John Howard, Australia’s second longest-serving prime minister, stated that the Liberal Party is the party of both Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill. It is the party of both conservatism and classical liberalism. Historically, the Liberals have been electorally successful when espousing these philosophies simultaneously. Edmund Burke, the 18th…
Former PM John Howard Rallies for South Australian Premier Ahead of Election
With the South Australian election just two days away, former prime minister John Howard joined the campaign trail to remind South Australians how far the state has come under Premier Steven Marshall’s leadership in the last four years. “It’s come out of the slow lane, it’s humming,” Howard told reporters in the seat of Newland,…
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