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• Beneath contempt

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:28 am

  Tags: Terrorism Laws, Howard Govt

  the Prime Minister, John Howard. That would be right … Andrews will be shitting bricks in case he’s upset his mates in cabinet. And that will be the beginning and end of any concerns he has about his behaviour. I tell you what else is understood Mr Andrews … your handling of the matter has angered a lot of Australians.

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• It’s not me, it’s you: Howard does accountability

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:07 pm

  Tags: Howard Govt

  morning. Noting that Mr Howard has recently pursued a strategy of attacking the states at every available opportunity, Hartcher conlcudes: Howard sees clashing noisily with the states as a winning strategy, whether he wins the individual arguments or not. If he wins, he gets his way and prevails. He is seen as a strong, effective leader. If

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• Three more years?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:27 am

  Tags: Labor Politics, Howard Govt

  areas, while leaving the Howard legacy intact in others. The extent to which a Labor government would do anything at all depends on the election outcome. No matter what happens, Howard's mob will unfortunately have a majority in the Senate until the middle of next year. It's probable therefore that if Labor gets a majority in the Reps,

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• More good economic management

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:38 am

  Tags: Health, Howard Govt

  not sure whether to admire Howard’s brazenness or wonder if he’s lost the capacity to spin as well as he used to. Out of the blue he announced the federal government would fund a new hospital at Devonport (also mentioned by observa in comments and the subject of a post over at Blogocracy). Here’s an exchange from his press

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• One injured, one MIA

  Published: August 2, 2007, 4:25 am

  Tags: Howard Govt

  An Australian has been injured in a mortar attack in Iraq. Fortunately it only sounds like a minor injury and he’s expected to return to duty after treatment. The news did prompt me to wonder, however, where’s Brendan? Did the terrurists capture our defence minister and nobody noticed? Since he made that unfortunate admission that we

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• Government to slash home buyer assistance

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:53 pm

  Tags: Australian Issues, Howard Govt

  Or is this another of the Howard Government’s Goldilocks measures: not too big, not too small but just right? We should be grateful for ministers like Nick Minchin and Brendan ‘There’s oil in Iraq’ Nelson; they still tend to blurt out the truth every now and again. Minchin is doing no more than tacitly acknowledging the

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• New improved re-election strategy

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:34 am

  Tags: Howard Govt

  Look over there! UNION BOSSES!! And look over there!!! TERRORISTS!!!! AND THERE RIGHT THERE!!!!! LABOR STATE GOVERNMENTS!!!!!! Share This

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• Happy Birthday, Newspoll.

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:22 pm

  Tags: Howard, Howard Govt

  simple. 0.00% is the Howard government’s winning strike rate over the past twelve months of Newspoll. They have not won a single Newspoll since the poll conducted over the weekend of August 5th to 6th, 2006. I could get snarky and say that the slump in Howard’s “Preferred PM” ratings back from 44/43 to 45/39

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• Spotlight on great quotes from the past

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:11 am

  Tags: Howard, Howard Govt

  My friends, we all prize the financial security of our families. Let me say this, and it’s not just my view, but it’s a view frequently expressed to me as I move around this country talking to Australian families. Nothing threatens that security more directly than the prospect of rising interest rates. Rising interest rates dominates

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• “Dennis Comes Clean” or “How to not be a member of the media without really trying”

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Howard, Howard Govt, Media

  UPDATE: Crikey reports that Martin O’Shannessy regrets his article supporting Dennis’ “Preferred PM” theory. Last night O’Shannessy, speaking on a panel that also featured psephologist Malcolm Mackerras and journalists Jack Waterford and Karen Middleton, told the on-the-record gathering that he very much regretted

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• Toorak fashions

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:18 am

  Tags: Howard Govt

  Tell me Peter Costello wouldn’t wear one of these t-shirts if you gave him one. At least as jammies. Share This

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• Dog in the manger

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: Howard Govt

  longings of destroying Howard politically. Even at the expense of the Party. Envy's like that, it has that irrational destructiveness. I particularly liked how the information went from being on the record , probably after a few bottles of red, to being off the record in the cold light of day. Call me na ve, but I didn't know

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• Spotlight on great quotes from the present

  Published: August 15, 2007, 9:27 pm

  Tags: Political Lies, Language, Howard Govt

  If [the remarks] were off the record in 2005, they should also be off the record in 2007, Mr Abbott said. And if something is off the record it in effect doesn't exist and there's nothing wrong with denying something that didn't exist. Share This

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• And you thought ‘incentivation’ was bad

  Published: August 19, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Howard Govt

  Howard now wants us all to be ‘aspirational nationalists’. Mr Howard said people across the country wanted good services and good outcomes, and did not care which level of government delivered them. “That inherent pragmatism of the Australian people should be a clear signpost to all governments,” he said. Translated, I

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• There be signs and wonders

  Published: August 25, 2007, 8:42 pm

  Tags: Environment, Australian Issues, Howard Govt

  criticised as yet another Howard political appointment, had grown a spine and had hit out in no uncertain terms about the disastrous proposal for a pulp mill in the Tasmanian Tamar valley, and the corrupted political process which is making sure it goes through. And he wasn’t pussyfooting around, either. Passers-by were bemused by the

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