Olive branch comes a little late
IT is belated, bold and a surprise – John Howard has pledged a fifth-term referendum to achieve symbolic reconciliation with Australia’s indigenous people.
IT is belated, bold and a surprise – John Howard has pledged a fifth-term referendum to achieve symbolic reconciliation with Australia’s indigenous people.
IT is more than 40 years since Donald Horne defined Australia as “a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck”. It was a branding that captured the Australian suspicion of authority and frustration at the longevity of the Menzian age.
THE federal Government has taken a necessary but dangerous step with John Howard’s embrace of a new national clean energy target by 2020 – a repudiation of his May 2007 taskforce report and its pledge of low-cost abatement.
THE premiers are starting to move in John Howard’s direction on a national curriculum.
WE need to get sharper intellectually and tougher politically to help shape the region.
CABINET is left to rue the chance of a smooth leadership transition that went begging.
THE Sydney climate change declaration is a success for John Howard and a good outcome for APEC.
If Liberals fear oblivion, John Howard must reassess whether he is the best leader for the party
THE meeting of 21 world leaders in Sydney next week does not happen by accident: it happens by design, and that design is a prize example of Australian independence and creativity.
AS the spectre of a possible election defeat looms, John Howard’s strategy of big-spending conservatism, so successful for so long, seems to be approaching the point of political and economic exhaustion.
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