As a clearer picture of the dying days of the Howard Government emerges, questions suggest themselves. Howard biographer Wayne Errington writes.
John winston howard
Mungo: Liberals awake to a new reality
Like shy rodents emerging from their burrows after hibernation, like snakes uncoiling from their torpor as they prepare to hunt again, like insects taking a first, timid look at the world through a crack in their chrysalis, the Liberals are awakening to the new reality, writes Mungo MacCallum.
News in 2007: The Top Tens
One planet. 195 countries. 365 days. 8760 hours. 6,602,224,175 humans. 6000 wild tigers. Fewer than 40 Gilbert’s Potoroos. Is it possible to condense the life of planet earth in 2007 into just ten events? Not really, but that hasn’t stopped the some of the world’s leading news organisations and their readers from giving it a go. Here’s a quick guide to how 2007 will be remembered.
Rundle’s final morning doggerel
There was a PM of a mind
The past should not be left behind
We did but see him passing by
Yet never really knew the guy
Mungo MacCallum: John Howard – decline and fall: Part 1
In the first of a series of extracts from Mungo MacCallum’s new book “Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election,” he examines where it all went wrong for John Howard.
Mungo: The dubious legacy of John Winston Howard
John Winston Howard was Australia’s second longest-serving Prime Minister, presiding almost unchallenged over the political landscape for well over a decade. His time in government can not be dismissed lightly. However it can be dismissed heavily, so here goes, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Two vessels struck icebergs and sank over the weekend.
Errington: Is John Howard turning into Paul Keating?
The similarities between John Howard and his old nemesis, Paul Keating, have piled up during this campaign. Perhaps after a few years, all prime ministers start to sound the same, writes Wayne Errington.
Abjorensen: John Winston Howard, political extremist
Australia has had a few dodgy and iffy governments over the years but political extremism has never really gained a significant toehold. That is, until the current term of the Howard government and its absolute authority over the parliament, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Abjorensen: What fate John Howard?
John Winston Howard has a thing or two on his mind at the moment, quite apart from being Prime Minister of Australia. He is fighting not one, but many battles, writes Norman Abjorensen.
If you do the crime, Johnnie…
The first thing I thought when I heard John Howard’s black referendum announcement was “Oh my goodness, where does that leave The Australian newspaper”. Very much alone, and out on quite the limb, would be the answer, writes Chris Graham.
Bloody chaos: that’s leadership the Liberal way
One thing quite uncontestable about the Liberal Party’s view of leadership is that is it is totally instrumental. A leader’s success is measured purely in terms of delivering electoral victories. But once that sniff of defeat is in the air, the past glories count for nothing.
Dear John: Presents for the PM
Crikey received a flood of generous birthday present suggestions from readers for the PM, but there can only be twelve winners. The following magnanamous entrants will each receive a copy of The Crikey Guide to the 2007 Election, out now through Penguin.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 19 July, 2007
Treasurer Costello, sitting down for the first of his frank encounters with the authors of John Howard’s biography last year, can have been under no illusions as to the potential for it to leave a muddy footprint across the campaign trail.
