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John Winston Howard
26 July 1939 -
Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007We are currently preparing a short profile. Please return again soon, or email us if you would like to be notified when this entry is complete. Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years | In his path-breaking The Lucky Country Donald Horne wrote a text for the times as they seemed in the age of Robert Gordon Menzies. In Looking for Leadership he writes of the distractions and quandaries of ordinary Australians at a time when political leadership has drifted away to languish in what he calls John Howard's Dreamtime. In a unique presentation of Australians as people of great potential waiting to resume history, Horne gives a masterly picture of a prime minister lost in events in a society rich in possibilities. Looking for Leadership is a multi-layered book, a mixture of astute analysis and warm personal recollection. It is energising and forward-looking, informed and informative, written with human sympathy, wit and intellectual bite by one of Australia's most respected social commentators. | The Barren Years:
John Howard & Australian Political Culture | In The Barren Years one of this country's most influential thinkers describes the changes in our political culture during the tenure of the Howard government. Robert Manne voted for John Howard in 1996 but as the Coalition government revealed its true character he became one of its most trenchant and articulate critics. In this compelling new book Manne describes a period in which we have lost opportunity after opportunity. Hopes for the republic and Aboriginal reconciliation are fading. The universities and the ABC are under siege. And refugees are incarcerated in prison-style camps. More than any other commentator Manne shows how social divisions between 'winners' and 'losers', between city and country, run deep. He analyses the One Nation phenomenon's refusal to die. How we reached the centenary of federation in an uneasy and uncertain mood. In The Barren Years Manne asks the basic question - what has gone wrong? | Howard's Agenda | A study of Australia's 1998 election, by academic commentators and party officials, examining reasons for John Howard's victory and its significance. Analyzes aspects of the campaign, such as the senate campaign, tax attacks, partisan bias, and the Australian print media. |
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