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Captain John: inside the Howard cabinet.(How Good Was Howard?)
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September 01, 2008 |
Abbott, Tony |
COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
JOHN HOWARD was a man under extreme pressure the first time I met him, back in 1987. For me, meeting the then Opposition leader was a momentous occasion. For Howard, it might easily have been a tedious distraction from resisting the "Joh for Canberra" campaign. Notwithstanding staff interruptions, he managed to give a twenty-nine-year-old ex-seminarian with an interest in politics forty-five minutes of what seemed like his undivided attention.
Two years later, Howard was the former Opposition leader who'd been rolled by his party, as well as the former Treasurer whose policy had been rejected by his prime minister. "Mr 17 per cent, why does he do it?" was the ...
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