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Article: Our greatest prime minister.(How Good Was Howard?)
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- Quadrant
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- March 1, 2008
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This is the first in a series of articles that will critically appraise the eleven and a half years of the government of John Howard. The intention of the series is both to look back on the Howard era and assess its place in history, and to look forward to see what can be learnt for the future from his government's successes and failures.
THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT'S defeat on November 24, 2007, and John Howard s defeat in Bennelong, have already provoked appraisals of his place in Australia's history. Historians of the Left have begun sharpening not so much their pencils as their scythes. Just as, over time, we have seen a steady rain of revisionism on the life and ...