ENG: John Winston Howard, AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 to 2007, representing the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales. He served as Treasurer in the Fraser government of from 1977 to 1983. He was Leader of the Liberal Party and Coalition Opposition from 1985 to 1989, which included the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. He was re-elected as Leader of the Opposition in 1995.
Howard led the Liberal-National Coalition to victory at the 1996 federal election, defeating Paul Keating's Labor government and ending a record thirteen years of Coalition opposition. ...
Prime Minister John Howard is the second-longest-serving prime minister in Australian history.
John Howard, who was Australia's prime minister for almost 12 years before leaving office in 2007, visited RFE/RL this week to share his thoughts about the rising democratic tide in the Middle East and what the West can do to change authoritarian regimes.
Against a backdrop of toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, a teetering one in Libya, and ripples in Bahrain, Yemen, Morocco, and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, Howard talked about hopes of democracy building ...
Can you spot the error in the following propositions? The Coalition will protect the economic interests of Aussie battlers. Labor doesn't trust the market to allocate resources. The Greens are too fixated on the environment to care about the economy. The party names are in the wrong places! The explosive politics of climate change, unleashed last Thursday by the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee's draft strategy on pricing carbon, is turning time-honoured political norms on their heads. So it was Greens leader Bob Brown using John Howard's favourite term, "battlers", on the ...
FORMER Australian prime minister John Howard said he believes terrorists who carried out a wave of coordinated attacks on Mumbai last week had intended to send US president-elect Barack Obama a “message”.Speaking at a Hebrew University function in Sydney on Sunday night, Howard said: “I have no doubt the terrorists planned it to say to president-elect [Barack] Obama: ‘Don’t you imagine because you’re replacing President Bush who we despise that we’re going to like you … we’re not.’”He added that the attacks are a “brutal ...
