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  John Hewson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Robert Hewson (born 28 October 1946), Australian Liberal politician and economist, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a working-class, politically conservative engineer.
Keating memorably described the impact of Hewson's GST as "15% on this, 15% on that." Keating famously described Hewson as a "feral abacus."
Hewson was instead forced into a series of circumlocutions about whether the cake would be decorated, have ice cream in it and so on.
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Dr Hewson's academic career included the years from 1978-1987 as a Professor of Economics, of which four years, from 1983-1987, were as Head of the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales.
Dr Hewson holds the degrees of Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Sydney, MA from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
Dr Hewson is active in the not for profit sector in many roles, including as President of the Arthritis Foundation of Australia, Chairman of the Positive Ageing Foundation and Chairman of Osteoporosis Australia.
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 John Howard (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Howard John Winston Howard (born July 26 1939), is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, coming to office on March 11, 1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004.
John Howard in the United States in 1997 One of Howard's earliest notable actions in office occurred after the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, When he responded by persuading the state governments to effectively prohibit the ownership of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
John Howard with [[George W. Bush]] So long as the issues of terrorism and national security were uppermost in the minds of voters, Howard retained a clear political advantage over his opponents, and throughout 2002 and 2003 he kept his lead in the opinion polls over the then Labor leader, Simon Crean.
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 John Hewson: Kensington's Revolutionary War Hero : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
John Hewson was born in 1744 in England, the son of a London woolen draper.
John Hewson, a supporter of Oliver Cromwell and implicated directly in the execution of King Charles I. Peter Hewson was sometime governor of Dublin and a member of the Cromwellian House of Peers.
Hewson was trained as a printer of calico fabrics and had worked for Talwin and Foster, a leading English textile printworks, at Bromley Hall near London.He very likely brought his equipment to Philadelphia, and perhaps half a dozen workmen as well.
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 John Hewson (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dr John Hewson Dr John Robert Hewson (born 28 October 1946), Australian Liberal politician and economist, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of a working-class but politically conservative engineer.
Keating famously described Hewson as a "feral abacus." This assault forced Hewson into a partial backdown, agreeing not to levy the GST on food.
At the March 1993 election Hewson was defeated by Keating, in what many had described as "the unloseable election." Hewson had never imagined the possibility of defeat, and for the rest of 1993 he seemed to be in shock.
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John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), an Australian politician, is currently the Prime Minister of Australia.
John Valder's criticism was particularly strong, claiming that Howard should be tried and punished as a war criminal.
John Howard with U.S. President George W. Bush on 16 May 2006, during Howard's seventh official visit to the White House as Prime Minister.
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 John Howard Encyclopedia Article @ AmericanCanDo.com (American Can Do)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lyell Howard died during John's teenage years, leaving his mother to take care of John (or "Jack" as he was known in the family) and his three brothers.
John Howard's government also considered the issue of a national apology to Aboriginal Australians for their treatment by previous generations following the European settlement of the country.
John Valder, a former president of the Liberal Party, and Howard's former friend and colleague,
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 John Howard - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Winston Howard (born July 26, 1939), is an Australian politician and the25th Prime Minister of Australia, coming to office on March 11,1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004.
But when Hewson lost the "unloseable" 1993 election to Keating, Howard was again passed over for the leadership, which in 1994 went to Alexander Downer.
John Valder's criticism was particularly strong, claiming that Howard should be tried and punished as a war criminal [6].
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 John Hewson Criticises Howard Iraq Policy [March 11, 2003]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hewson, leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994, was interviewed on SBS television by Lee Lin Chin.
Hewson said Australia was losing sight of its role in the region and becoming a terrorism target.
This is the transcript of comments by John Hewson, speaking on SBS news, March 11, 2003.
www.australianpolitics.com /news/2003/03/03-03-11.shtml   (827 words)

  
 ALOR - OnTarget Vol.28 - No.16
John Hewson is dogmatic that all protection must be abolished by the end of the century.
Hewson must decide what is more important for Australia - his passion for an economic ideology or to form the next government." On present indications, it is far from certain that Dr. Hewson will be forming that government.
While Dr. Hewson is rigid in his defence of his economic rationalism, which includes the General Services Tax, and the proposal to abolish the right of the unemployed to obtain social welfare payments after nine months, he is not so definite in his attitude towards the Nation's basic heritage.
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 Macquarie University News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Whatever the reason, John Hewson is now set to apply his considerable business acumen to the academic arena.
Dr John Hewson's appointment as Director of Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Professor of Management may come as a surprise to many.
Dr Hewson would like to see some rationalisation of business education both within the University and across Australia, perhaps linking or amalgamating some of the 40-odd institutions that deliver MBAs, and standardising the quality of degrees they offer.
www.pr.mq.edu.au /macnews/ShowItem.asp?ItemID=106   (650 words)

  
 Memorial honors its faculty
Bubenik is now working with Dr. Hewson on a monograph dealing with tense and aspect in Indo-European languages, and his soon-to-be published study of Middle Indo-Aryan dialects is being followed up with a further volume on early new Indo-Aryan syntax.
Dr. Jespers observed that work in his area does not often have obvious applications, and the case of the famous theorem is a good example of this.
John de Bruyn, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, strives to understand the forces that lead to the rivulets that result when a liquid film flows under the influence of gravity.
www.mun.ca /marcomm/gazette/1995-96/Jun.20/f02-mem.html   (1789 words)

  
 ALOR - OnTarget Vol.27 - No.39
Like the traditional Marxists, John Hewson is the genuine ideologue, even though masked by the claim that he is an economic rationalist.
John Hewson is an economic puritan: he claims to know what is best for his fellow man. In many ways John Hewson reminds us of the old-time Marxists in the Labor Party who insisted that it was much better for the Labor Party to continue in opposition indefinitely rather than compromise their beliefs.
In essence, John Hewson is attempting to persuade the Liberal Party that if it cannot convince the Australian electors that the Consumption Tax is essential for the future of Australia, it does not deserve to be in government.
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 Speaker Dr John Hewson Full Biography - Speakers Bureau @ ICMI
Dr. John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system.
Hewson's business career, before entering politics in 1987, was as a company director and business consultant and included roles as Executive Director, Macquarie Bank Limited and as a Trustee the IBM Superannuation Fund.
Dr Hewson's political career included seven years as a ministerial advisor and a further eight years as the Member for Wentworth in the Federal Parliament.
www.icmi.com.au /speakerfull.phtml?id=202   (235 words)

  
 Australian Institute of Company Directors : Dr John Hewson AM FAICD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Dr John R. Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system.
Dr Hewson has worked as an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and Statistics), the Reserve Bank, the International Monetary Fund and as an adviser to two successive Federal Treasurers and the Prime Minister.
Dr Hewson's political career included seven years as a ministerial adviser and a further eight years as the Member for Wentworth in the Federal Parliament.
companydirectors.com.au /About/Speakers/H/Dr+John+Hewson+AM+FAICD.htm   (298 words)

  
 John Hewson - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details
Dr Hewson has worked as an economist for the Australian Treasury (Census and Statistics), the Reserve Bank, the International Monetary Fund as an advisor to two successive Federal Treasurers and the Prime Minister.
Dr Hewson has a B.Ec (Hons) from the University of Sydney; an M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada; and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the John Hopkins University in the USA.
Dr Hewson's political career spanned eight years as a Member for Wentworth in the Federal Parliament.
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 John Howard - Gnorx.com, the free encyclopedia
Another two ministers (John Moore and Warwick Parer) were discovered to have breached the code, but at that point Howard opted to relax it, rather than lose more of his front bench.
After the 1996 election, Pauline Hanson, a disendorsed Liberal candidate who was elected as the independent member for Oxley in Queensland, used her first speech to Parliament to attack multiculturalism and reconciliation and allege that "this nation is in danger of being swamped by Asians".
Governor General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, in his previous job as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, had refused to investigate Anglican priests accused of paedophilia in various churches: eventually Hollingworth was forced to resign the governor-generalship amidst a storm of controversy that threatened to damage the credibility of his office.
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 1993 Australian Federal Election
The Opposition was led by Dr. John Hewson, an economic conservative who had entered Parliament in 1987.
Hewson had campaigned strongly in the 1990 election and had succeeded Peacock following the coalition loss.
Hewson had been forced by pressure group activity and public opinion to exempt food from the proposed GST, but this was not enough against the formidable campaigning skills of Paul Keating.
www.australianpolitics.com /elections/1993   (259 words)

  
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John Winston Howard (born July 26, 1939), Australian politician 7 and 25th Prime Minister 8 of Australia, came 7 to office on March 5 11, 1996.
John Howard attended 4 Canterbury Boys' High 2 School, where he 4 excelled academically, and went 0 on to study law 3 at the University 3 of Sydney.
But when 4 Hewson lost the "unloseable" 3 1993 election to Keating, 0 Howard was again 7 passed over for the 2 leadership, which in 0 1994 went to Alexander 7 Downer.
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 Henry Thornton - Two grumpy old leaders
Hewson's position would be understandable had he joined a lobby group urging the federal Government to do more reform, not less.
Hewson once wanted to align the top personal income tax rate with the company tax rate to simplify the tax system and make it fairer for those who can't afford the expensive tax avoidance schemes of the wealthy.
In 1993 the prime ministership was John Hewson's to lose, while admittedly at the federal election 11 years later Latham had a more difficult task.
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John Hewson received his BA from University College, London, in 1952 and did graduate work at the Institute of Education in London and at the Université Laval where he received his PhD in 1964.
Hewson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a world expert on aboriginal languages.
Dr. Paine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was named to the Order of Canada in 1996.
www.mun.ca /marcomm/gazette/1997-98/Oct.30/special/s05-emer.htm   (687 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Howard attended Canterbury Boys' High School and went on to study law at the University of Sydney.
Although Howard remained on the Liberal frontbench, his leadership career seemed to be over, particularly when Peacock lost the 1990 elections and the Liberals turned to a new, younger leader, Dr John Hewson.
Governor General, Dr Peter Hollingworth, in his previous job as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, had protected Anglican priests accused of paedophilia in various churches: eventually Hollingworth resigned.
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 Why War? Keywords: Alexander Downer
His grandfather, Sir John Downer, was a Senator in the first federal Parliament in 1901.
When the Liberals unexpectedly lost the 1993 elections to Paul Keating, Downer began to be talked of as a possible leader, and in May 1994 he was elected Leader of the Opposition after the resignation of Dr John Hewson.
In January 1995 he resigned as Leader, and John Howard was elected to replace him.
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 Dr John Hewson - the case against Australian involvement in war :: ABC Sydney (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Former Liberal leader, Dr John Hewson, has been very outspoken against a war in Iraq, telling SBS Television that Prime Minister John Howard was starting to lose some support in Cabinet and in the Party Room over his stand.
Dr Hewson said that despite Prime Minister Howard's point that he did not want Australia to be seen as a spectator in this process, "there was no particular reason given our limited capabilities and military resources that we should be there.
Dr Hewson is concerned that it could escalate and Australia could be drawn into a significant Middle Eastern conflict much broader than Iraq.
www.abc.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /sydney/stories/s806819.htm   (277 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: John Hewson
Hewson, best known as the former leader of the Federal Liberal Party, is also an accomplished businessman having previously been chairman of the ABN AMRO bank, currently serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organisations including the Arthritis Research Taskforce and Investment Advisory committee.
John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system.
JOHN HEWSON VISIT Professor John Hewson will be speaking at a business luncheon on Friday, 2 April, 2004 at 12.20 pm at The Willows Restaurant, Wyoming.
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 John Hewson - Saxton Speaker Bureau
John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government and the financial system.
Dr Hewson's business career, before entering politics in 1987, was as a company director and business consultant and included roles as Executive Director, MacQuarie Bank Limited and as a Trustee of a major private superannuation fund.
Dr Hewson's arresting presentations resonate with his specialist knowledge.
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