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Right or left, it comes down to social capital
Over the Christmas break, John Howard and Mark Latham will both be contemplating the same question - what's next? The process of economic reform...
Congratulations, Tassie
Three cheers to Tasmania's forestry industry. The Prime Minister, John Howard, was ambivalent until the very end. Yet the foresters have won and...
Freedom and justice are alive and well: Australians care
Those who wanted to rid the nation of “the lying rodent†aka the Prime Minister, John Howard, should relax and have...
Wise Policy Trampled in a Frenzy of Self-interest
The 2004 federal election will go down in history as an opportunity lost. We had the chance to use 'reform dividend' to address some of the...
Doctor's Wives: An Apt Metaphor
Judith Brett (Opinion, 24/9) finds the term "doctors' wives" extraordinarily patronising. Far more patronising surely is Brett's claim that women...
Why Howard is Menzies' heir
The Prime Minister has not moved to the right. It is the moral middle class that has moved to the left. The claim that under John Howard the...
Critics go overboard, voters unimpressed
"The electorate will render its judgement accordingly." John Howard's political hero, Robert Menzies, once said that if 12 people witnessed a car...
Bold reform is just a few risks away
During the past eight years the coalition government can claim some important successes. Financial management has been sound with the economy...
Howard Must Reveal His Vision
Only two of Australia's twenty-five prime ministers---Robert Menzies and Bob Hawke---have won more than three elections. The scale of what the...
Weak States Lap up Federal Largesse
The Australian Federal system is broken and needs to be either scrapped for fixed. While this has been apparent for years, the situation is getting...