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Friday, 14 December 2007

John Howard: the achievement

Christian Kerr writes:

When John Howard returned as leader of the federal parliamentary Liberal Party on 30 January 1995, his party was in power in every state and every territory. This is how matters stood on that date and on the anniversary of the date in subsequent years.

 


8 Comments

  1. Glenn Brandham
    Posted Saturday, 15 December 2007 at 2:07 am | Permalink

    Just think, Libs were afraid of the damage One Nation posed, so they all huddled behind Howard. Look where it got them…hahahahahahahahaha.

  2. Connor Moran
    Posted Friday, 14 December 2007 at 8:41 pm | Permalink

    Quite an achievement then, yes? Brilliant.

  3. Stuart
    Posted Saturday, 15 December 2007 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

    I would like to wish Andrew all the best for the future and just say “Mate I haven’t laughed so much in years”!

  4. andrew
    Posted Friday, 14 December 2007 at 11:53 pm | Permalink

    I have my own chart regarding John Howards reign.
    It starts on March 1st 1996.
    Some may say, that’s when Johnny got elected.
    I say that’s the day I got married.
    And…. I settled my divorce 3 days before the last election.
    11 years of misery

  5. Dave
    Posted Monday, 17 December 2007 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    Australians will chuck out any of their state governments as soon as the Libs become electable, but this could be years away because the Libs will be lucky to rebuild in 1 term even in NSW. Old governments are bad, but useless oppositions are worse.

  6. James
    Posted Saturday, 15 December 2007 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    So now its Labor that has Govt across the country - which State will be the first to leave the Labor fold?

  7. Charles
    Posted Monday, 17 December 2007 at 5:18 am | Permalink

    This chart contains some inaccuracies

    Queensland did not have a Liberal government in 1995. Wayne Goss was the Labor Premier of Queensland until 1996 while Rosemary Follett was Chief Minister in the ACT until March 2 1995

  8. A-C
    Posted Saturday, 15 December 2007 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    If this is an attempt to knock Howard, for consistency reasons you might want to do one on the Hawke/Keating governments:

    By 1995-6 Labor was out on their arse nearly everywhere as well.