Monday, July 04, 2016

John Winston Howard


Mr Sheen

People seem to think that John Howard was a great prime minister, he has been mythologised into someone with legendary status, however that was not always true of him, he was very nearly a huge failure.

Paul Keating once labelled his attempt at a come back as, “Lazarus with a triple bypass.” Against all the odds, John Howard is heading for a place in Australia's political pantheon not far behind his hero, Robert Menzies.

However, he presided over such a period of boom, really, he lucked into times of plenty, like Australia never seen, that I am sure you could have put up Spot the dog to run the country during that period, and Spot the dog would have been thought of as just as great.

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