Category: PRIME MINISTERS OF AUSTRALIA – JOHN HOWARD

Name John Winston Howard Term of Office 11 March 1996 – 3 December 2007 Term as MP House of Representatives: 9 July 1974 – 12 December 2007 (Bennelong); Leader of the Opposition (September 1985 – May 1989 and January 1995 – March 1996) Party Liberal Born 26 July 1939, Dulwich Hill, Sydney Education Canterbury Boys’… Continue reading John Howard – Fast facts

Strong economic growth, low inflation and interest rates, lowest unemployment in 30 years, creation of around two million new jobs, and wage increases. Record health funding of $47.6 billion in 2006-07. (help with medicare and family assistance). Increased family assistance payments from $14 billion in 1996-97 to nearly $27 billion in 2005-06. Increased funding for state schools… Continue reading Achievement

Howard’s personal story is that of a survivor, the defier of odds, the man who never gave up… Apart from tenacity, central to Howard’s mature political persona has been a commitment to the ideology of economic reform, spliced with pragmatism, an acute sense of tactics, and an ordinariness that, while ridiculed by critics, enabled him… Continue reading Interesting facts about John Howard

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