The great tragedy for John Howard, now on his Defending My Record tour of the USA, is that increasingly he is the very picture of one hand clapping.
It’s not just that the Rudd Government has turned against the most cherished principals of Howardism — that was to be expected. The real repudiation is that the central tenets of Howard belief — IR revolution, the apology, Kyoto, culture wars — have also been abandoned by his own party.
What strength of character and determined belief — for 11 years it seems the political dialogue of an entire country was bent to the ideas and prejudices of just one man. Amazing.
Absolutely spot on and it’s why Albury has a dangerous Freeway through it rather than bypassing it as originally promised by the Howard Government – Just 24 hours before the decision was reversed and announced he told the Transport Minister John Anderson
Of course they’ve been abandoned by his own party. The poor buggers are running on the spot, trying to find the 21st century.
Did the application form say $7.00 a table for corporate bodies? I’ve dropped my glasses and cant read it properly.