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Article: Not all that funny, Mungo.(John Howard, Australian Prime Minister)(Not Happy, John!)(Run, Johnny, Run)(God under Howard)(Book Review)
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- Quadrant
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- April 1, 2005
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JOHN HOWARD'S vaccination--the process by which weak doses of a poison give immunity to it--must be almost complete. The latest, and probably superfluous, jabs have been administered by the authors of three bizarre books that appeared shortly before and soon after Howard began his fourth term as Prime Minister. They are Not Happy, John! by Margot Kingston (Penguin), Run, Johnny, Run by Mungo MacCallum (Duffy & Snellgrove) and God under Howard by Marion Maddox (Allen & Unwin).
These works attract attention because they are only the second, third and fourth books about Howard (Mark Latham's brief opposition inspired three on him) and because they represent a kind ...