EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: John Howard on Misogyny, Paul Keating, and the new edition of Lazarus Rising 

Spot on.His record is not that great especially as Treasurer.This guy did a lot of damage.

Yes - all that hard work. deficit after deficit after deficit. unemployment that passed 10%. Job opportunities tighter than a fish' cake-hole. Keating's "hard work" finished in the mid 80's. The ALP started window dressing with feel good issues to the detriment of this "hard work" and the economy went south. At what stage were they going to deliver a surplus? At what stage were they going to de-regulate the industrial relations system? Keating as treasurer initiated changes that Howard as his predecessor was unable to. Keating & Hawke were only able to push through reforms with the opposition's (Howard's) support because a great many of their own party were opposed. But hey, don't let history's truth get in the way of your slogans.

+Greg Smith And yet the only federal government to cut spending as a proportion of gdp (87), float the dollar, deregulate the financial industry and open up the banking market, just to name a few. Keating and Hawke managed to do what the Fraser governments couldn't and deserve credit (and I say this as a card carrying member of the Liberal party). Keating and Howard were more similar than they were different.

@@gregsmith451 Again come up with some coherent arguments John Howard is a pencil neck ninny that stole away the freedoms we Aussies had in making the semi automatics that we used to be able to buy he basically made us all criminals for the actions of one man he is an evil dog and a fucking prick of a shit.

@@gregsmith451 GDP is not king!!

Yeah his massive deficit

Blaire, Bush, and Howard should all be tried at the Hague for war crimes!!! They essentially violated international law making the Iraq war illegal, as you mentioned(no UN mandate). As far as I am concerned Howard is by far one of THE WORST PMs we've ever had!!!

hence the reason hes a war criminal