Would someone please explain how Howard's recent moves on Aboriginal rights and welfare square with the theory that he's Libertarian?

Another toxic , snide little piece from a veteran Howard-hater...no doubt the precursor to another nasty little tome in the pipeline for the pre-election indoctrination of the 'masses'.
She admits a decade of Howard reform...so I presume she refutes Keating's claim that this unprecedented prosperity is all his own work.
Like all of the Left, Wallace supports nothing with evidence...knowing the evidence is to the contrary.
Wallace seems to have suffered some sort of a mind snap...or is being deliberately deceitful re staff and board appointments by this government....considering the Labor crony appointments like those of Hills, Johns, Holmes a Court, Abeles etc.

Does she forget Keating's dominance of the grants for cronies and other favorites...to the extent that they were called 'the Keatings'?
The snide comparison of Howard with Hewson and Keating is just the usual sneering venom ...the hallmark of the Left and Labor...as are the ravings re a Howard assault on race, lifestyle, multiculturalism and homosexuality etc.....all demonstrably untrue.

Contrary to Wallace's propaganda, Hawke/Keating benefited from the ending of the world recession and of the catastrophic drought that had plagued the Fraser government...and of course they could switch off the union blowtorch that had done enormous damage to Australia and Australians, when Hawke, and later Dolan were running the ACTU.
Hawke and his union lackeys were the real architects of the deficits, high interest rates, high unemployment and double digit inflation of the early 80s...and the recession in the term of their own government was all of their own making.
Howard/Costello, on the other hand, weathered the Asian downturn, (when all the media were forecasting doom)...the worst drought ever....Sars....the terrorism crisis...poor internationalconditions , before the socialist policies were ditched...and chronic obstruction from Labor, and other parties in the Senate,to their attempts to clean up the awful mess left by Labor.
Like all on the Left, Wallace knows the prosperity preceded the commodities boom ( it's a matter of public record), but like most other journalists, she thinks the Australian people are stupid...and hopes they will believe the lie.