Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Australia Birth: January 18, 1944
Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the thin….
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. Th….
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished..
Good economics is good politics..
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction..
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You ….
Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian..
I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just….
Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard….
In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better..
No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choic….
A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In trut….
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for ….
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out..
Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks..
If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it..
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field..
Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off..
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out o….
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility..
John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the gu….