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Sep 4, 2023 · Instead, rank selfishness. Howard's moral blindness sheds a stark light of its own. It reveals the yawning absence in Australia of a senior conservative of substance - a John Major who fought his party over the self-destructive madness of Brexit.
Mar 26, 2024 · When Howard said in 2003, “I don’t get people stopping me in the street and saying, ‘John, you’re outrageous, under your government the value of my house has increased’”, 57% of gen ...
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Mr Howard was surprised by the extent of his 1996 victory: "I'd become very nervous about even winning." "Even though we ran a good campaign. The polls were good. The Liberal Party had had so many setbacks and reverses and I'd had a number at a personal level, politically, as well, so that the size of the majority, which grew and grew as the counti...
It was Mr Howard's second time as Liberal leader, and he admits he wasn't sure his peers would think he could be a leader again after losing the federal election to Bob Hawke in 1987. Appealing to traditional Labor voters in 1996 and thereafter would be a massive challenge for Mr Howard. So how did he do it? Mr Howard puts it down to Australian nat...
As prime minister, Mr Howard refused to deliver an apology to the Stolen Generations. That came later, under Kevin Rudd, the man who beat Mr Howard at the polls in 2007. "I had reasons for that. And I don't retract, it was a very vexed issue," he says. "But I didn't think one generation could apologise for the claimed misdeeds of an earlier generat...
Mr Howard also refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the predecessor of the current Paris Agreement. At the time, he says he was concerned about a potential impact on the competitiveness of Australian industries. "I commissioned a very detailed analysis of the arguments for and against ratification in the months leading up to the 2007 election. And...
Mr Howard's views on same-sex marriage were another area that created political tension. He doesn't regret opposing marriage reform, and believes the 2017 plebiscite was imperfect. "It should have been a proper plebiscite, but a proper plebiscite would not have yielded a different result," he argues. He says it's important that independent and reli...
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. With US forces still in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Howard believes the intervention remains justified. "Oh, certainly, in the case of Afghanistan, the objective was to make sure that a country that had been a haven for the terrorists would never again be a haven for terrorists,"...
Sep 2, 2023 · It reveals the yawning absence in Australia of a senior conservative of substance - a John Major who fought his party over the self-destructive madness of Brexit.
Aug 11, 2013 · John MacArthur: “Worship is our innermost being responding with praise for all that God is, through our attitudes, actions, thoughts, and words, based on the truth of God as He has revealed Himself” ( The Ultimate Priority [Moody Press], p. 127).
We have learned from long experience that re-integration – properly and effectively managed – equates to crime prevention, because if prisoners are humanely and effectively re-integrated into their communities they are less likely to re-offend. Less likely to re-offend means fewer victims of crime. Fewer victims equals safer communities.
What does John chapter 4 mean? The gospel of John frequently uses contrast as a teaching tool. In chapter 2, there is a distinction between the joyous, secretive miracle at the wedding (John 2:6–10) and the public, dramatic cleansing of the temple (John 2:13–16). Chapter 3 presents another contrast.
