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  John Howard - Wikinfo
Howard described himself as "the most conservative leader the Liberals have ever had," and said that "the times will suit me." During 1985 and 1986, with unemployment rising and the economy stagnant, Howard appeared to be making ground on the government.
Howard's reputation was damaged when it was demonstrated that one of his claims during the asylum-seeker debate, that asylum-seekers has "thrown their children overboard" in order to force the government to allow them to land in Australia, was untrue, and that the Defence Minister at the time, Peter Reith, had known this.
Howard also had a difficult issue in the allegations that the 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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  John Howard Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Howard described himself as "the most conservative leader the Liberals have ever had," and said that "the times will suit me." During 1985 and 1986, with unemployment rising and the economy stagnant, Howard appeared to be making ground on the government.
Howard's reputation for honesty was damaged when it was demonstrated that one of his claims during the asylum-seeker debate, that asylum-seekers has "thrown their children overboard" in order to force the government to allow them to land in Australia, was untrue, and that the Defence Minister at the time, Peter Reith, had known this.
Howard and the Liberals remained firm favourites to defeat Crean at the scheduled elections in 2004, even though opinion polls on voting intention (as distinct from preferred Prime Minister) indicated that the election might be a closer contest than many people supposed.
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 John Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard was slow to criticise the views expressed by Hanson when compared with his opponents and Liberal Party collegues, and his initial public reaction was to comment that he thought it good that the years of "political correctness" were finally over.
Howard was able to pass the GST legislation through the Senate after making a controversial deal with Senator Meg Lees, leader of the Australian Democrats, which party at that time held the balance of power in the Senate.
Howard is also credited with suggesting the national day of mourning on 16 January 2005 with people using a sprig of acacia for remembrance of those who died or were dispossessed.
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 John Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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.
Howard was able to pass the GST legislation through the Senate after making a controversial deal with, leader of the Australian Democrats, who at that time held the balance of power in the Senate.
Howard's reputation was damaged in what became known as the Children overboard affair, when it was demonstrated that one of his claims during the asylum-seeker debate, that asylum-seekers has "thrown their children overboard" in order to force the government to allow them to land in Australia, was probably untrue.
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 John Howard
John Winston Howard (born July 26 1939), Australian politician and 25th Prime Minister of Australia, came to office on March 11 1996.
Howard's reputation was damaged when it was demonstrated that one of his claims during the asylum-seeker debate, that asylum-seekers has "thrown their children overboard" in order to force the government to allow them to land in Australia, was untrue, and that the Defence Minister at the time, Peter Reith, had known this.
During 2003-04 the Howard government was criticised for its alleged politicisation of the military and the public service, and for allegedly misleading Parliament over the war in Iraq.
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 John Howard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Howard (prison reformer), was an English prison reformer of the 18th century
John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, was an English duke in the 15th century
John Howard (soldier), was a British Parachutist Major who was in command of the assault on Pegasus Bridge on D-Day
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 John Howard : Famous : Biography : Information
Howard was slow to criticise the views expressed by Hanson when compared with his opponents and Liberal Party colleagues, and his initial public reaction was to comment that he thought it good that the years of "political correctness" were finally over.
Howard was able to pass the GST legislation through the Senate after making a controversial deal to exclude food from the GST with Senator Meg Lees, leader of the Australian Democrats, which party at that time held the balance of power in the Senate.
Howard is also credited with suggesting the national day of mourning on 16 January 2005 with people using a sprig of acacia for remembrance of those who died or were dispossessed.
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 John Howard
Although John Winston Howard heads the Liberal Party, he is far from liberal in his political outlook.
Howard rose through the Liberal Party in the 19605 when it was committed to both the welfare state and a role for trade unions - values he never shared.
Howard and a network of right-wing intellectuals, newspaper columnists, publishers and radio shock-jocks shamefully fanned the flames of this resentment.
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 John Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Winston Howard (born July 26 1939), is an Politics of AustraliaAustralian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of AustraliaPrime Minister of Australia, coming to office on March 11, 1996 and winning re-election in 1998, 2001 and 2004.
In 2003 Howard was accused of having misled Parliament in September 2002, when he had been asked whether any communication had occurred between the government and any representative of ethanol producers prior to a granting Manildra with $20 million a year in subsidies to produce ethanol.
Howard denied that any communication had taken place but it was subsequently revealed that he had met with Dick Honan, the chairman of the Manildra on the 1st of August, 2002.
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 John Winston Howard Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Winston Howard (born 1939), the prime minister of Australia, has established himself as a pro-business labor reformer and has voiced support for strengthened ties with Europe and America while integrating his nation's economy with neighboring Asian nations.
John Winston Howard was born in the summer of 1939, the youngest of four boys, in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney called Earlwood.
Howard's government went on to stir up further controversy went it refused to apologize for the official policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parent's care and placing them in institutions--a practice the Australian government had condoned into the 1960s.
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 A biography of John Howard
Barnett goes on to explain what John Howard's incredibly crucial and high-powered job was in the McMahon campaign; he was given the job of rolling the manual autocue built into McMahon's podium.
In this book Howard is quoted as saying of McMahon 'he arrived in the job too old and too late'- this from a man who was born old and for whom time has stood still.
So steeped in conservative values and fear of what is new is John Winston Howard that, if he were born before the Wright brothers, he would have organised a campaign against air travel of any description on the grounds that it was new and potentially dangerous.
www.maths.usyd.edu.au /u/mathas/howard.html   (1356 words)

  
 John Winston Howard - Encyclopedia.com
A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party, he was elected to parliament in 1974 and served as minister for business and consumer affairs (1975-77) and treasurer (1977-83) in the government of Malcolm Fraser.
Howard's way with terror: Kopassus and Australia: the government's eagerness to renew ties with Indonesia's special forces exposes the fraudulent nature of its 'war on terrorism'.(John Winston Howard)
Anaesthetising the national conscience: the Howard government's refugee policy is a hypocritical contradiction of the oft-espoused rhetoric of the 'fair go'.(John Winston Howard)
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 John Howard Biography
John Howard was born on the 26th of July, 1939.
Howard is Australia's second longest serving Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party in Australia.
Howard graduated from the University of Sydney with a bachelor of Laws and in 1961.
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 Prime Minister - John Winston Howard
John Winston Howard was born in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood on 26 July 1939.
Howard’s task was to attempt to negotiate concessions for Australian exports to member countries.
John Howard was deputy leader of the Opposition and shadow Treasurer from 16 March 1983.
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 Howard, John Winston --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The John Howard Association in the United States perpetuates both the name and the work of the 18th-century English prison reformer.
Howard was a man of considerable wealth who devoted much of his time and money to worthy causes.
U.S. playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson was a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who refused to answer questions before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in October 1947 and as a result suffered imprisonment and fllisting by the Hollywood studios.
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 John Winston Howard - Encyclopedia.com
Howard, John Winston (1939– ) Australian statesman, prime minister (1996– ;).
Howard was elected to the House of Representatives in 1974.
Howard led the Liberal-National coalition to victory against Paul Keating's ruling Labor Party government.
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 Charge John Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Our purpose is to raise people's awareness of the crimes committed by the Prime Minister of Australia, John Winston Howard, and that unless Australians demand accountability from our government, and their subsidiary agencies, he will have gotten away with some of the most heinous crimes ever committed on this planet.
The plan of this website is to publish articles detailing the crimes John Howard has committed, and the fact he thinks he can get away with it.
John Howard currently plans to retire at some point in the relatively near future and live out his days very comfortably at the Australian taxpayers' expense.
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 CNN.com - Political milestone for Howard - Dec 19, 2004
But the conservative Howard is still be a long way shy of the more than 17 years in the job achieved by his political hero, Liberal Party founder Sir Robert Menzies.
Still, the occasion is a sweet one for the 65-year-old Howard -- a politician who had been written off as "unelectable" by many pundits in the 1980s and who had once been dumped by his own party as leader during the wilderness years of opposition.
Howard's milestone comes seemingly at the height of his political powers, having won a comprehensive fourth consecutive term in office which includes, for the first time during his tenure, majority control of both upper and lower houses of parliament.
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 John howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Howard told the meeting of the parliamentary party yesterday that ultra-moderniser Bercow and Ken Clarke acolyte and Europhile Ian Taylor were examples of how MPs should not behave if the party is to have a civilised discussion about its future.
John Howard: Reckless, Bald-faced and Dangerous Liar Australian PM John Howard has been caught out lying to the public (yet again) on an important terrorism-related issue.
This is the petition:We, the undersigned, called for the indictment and prosecution of John Winston Howard (currently Australian Prime Minister) for acts of terrorism and war crimes.
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 HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Howard probably had a sneaking respect for the conservative former B-Grade actor who spent eight years in the White House and now Howard is entitled to a similar sobriquet.
The longer John Winston has the keys to The Lodge the less chance it seems of any muck sticking to him.
But the latest Howard defence of an apparent lie to Parliament is simply disgraceful.
www.hinch.net /says_archive/Aug03/5-8-03.htm   (385 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Winston Howard, Australian political leader (Australian And New Zealand History, Biography) - ...
John Winston Howard, Australian political leader, Australian And New Zealand History, Biographies
John Winston Howard 1939–, Australian political leader, prime minister (1996–;).
A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party, he was elected to parliament in 1974 and served as minister for business and consumer affairs (1975–77) and treasurer (1977–83) in the government of Malcolm Fraser.
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 AM - John Howard celebrates 30 years in Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Howard's $275 a head dinner was attended by 1,200 of the Liberal Party elite and corporate Australia.
HAMISH FITZSIMMONS: Mr Howard took time to pay tribute to Treasurer Peter Costello and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, as well as to the loyalty of his party colleagues as a whole.
JOHN HOWARD: 'Cause I want to say a very simple thankyou to all of them.
www.abc.net.au /am/content/2004/s1112823.htm   (530 words)

  
 John Howard - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
John Howard's hobbies include drowning cute little refugees and other needy people, He has a reputation of being compassionate for people who cant swim, mainly by teaching them how to swim in the middle of the pacific ocean with no prospect of survival.
John Howard believes that in order to taint Kevins Saintly status, John must take the moral high ground.
It is unfortunate for John that his moral authority is the equivalent of Adolf Hitler torturing kittens.
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