The former Prime Minister, John Howard, has returned to the political fray with an interview on Fox News and screened on Sky News Australia.
The interview comes one day in advance of the premiere of the the ABC television series, The Howard Years.
Coming Soon: The Howard Years
Oct 24, 2008
This is a YouTube video featuring an ABC television promotion for its forthcoming documentary series, The Howard Years.
Clare O’Neil: Howard’s Terrifying Lack Of Reflection
Mar 20, 2008
In March, John Howard visited Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where I am a Master of Public Policy student. Howard began his visit with a formal address on Australia/China relations. About 250 Harvard students and staff assembled in the school’s famous John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum to listen.
Howard reflected on his term as a period of deepening integration between Australia and China, evidenced by growing trade between the two countries. He framed the relationship in pragmatic terms, which drew a contrast to the familial bonds he described between Australia and the US. [Read more...]
Fidel Castro Does What John Howard Couldn’t!
Feb 19, 2008
Cuba’s President Fidel Castro has announced his resignation, after 48 years in power.
The Communist Party leader issued an extraordinary statement on the website of the party’s newspaper, Granma. [Read more...]
“Partially Treated Sewage Sandwich” From Julie Bishop
Feb 19, 2008
The Federal Opposition’s Julie Bishop has given an extraordinary press conference in which she attempted to justify the coalition’s decision not to to oppose the government’s legislation abolishing WorkChoices.
- Listen to Julie Bishop’s press conference:
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As the Sydney Morning Herald’s Annabel Crabb put it on February 20:
The Opposition’s Julie Bishop was on something quite different yesterday. Some sort of calmative, perhaps.
Ms Bishop has been vocal for months on the need to fight to the death for Australian Workplace Agreements.
And yesterday, for 30 minutes in the Senate courtyard, before a vast throng of fascinated reporters, with a fixed smile on her face, she consumed what for the benefit of family readers we will call a partially treated sewage sandwich. She was cool, charming and professional. She at no point lost her cool. And for much of the time, she made no sense whatsoever.
This is unsurprising, given that Ms Bishop was trying to explain how agreeing to abolish the agreements was pretty much the same as insisting on keeping them, if you thought about it.
