You mean 'Gohnny' Howard?. That slap you heard on his way out was the door hitting him in the bum.

John Howard never took from the treasury instead John Howard filled it keeping Australia fair .Advance Australia fair is the way to go.The new Australian chinese prime minister Kevin Rudd does not hold any education to hold australian jobs in australia and be able to say no to foriegn investors .Drunks who once wanted work to have a family or deal drugs because they cannot find worka and with work there would be less alcoholics and drug addicts .David H.

I dont pick on Liberal defence all that much TRTL. I dont think they had much control over the situations.
Someone in behind the scenes is doing the planning and the purchasing (junk, irresponsible purchases) and I dont think its the up front politicians in either party. Its like theres some closed off back room somewhere and a lucky dip situation and it seems to have been the same little man doing it all the time, even when Labor was in. I know the country is mostly gunless at the moment. The gun clubbers and the farmers had theirs taken off them and after Pt Arthur. Im sure there was no compensation in defence arsenals for that loss...and the great armies to the north manufacture for another time. They wait for something to happen so the door opens to move south. I reckon the Bibles endtimes will provide that opportunity.

Actually, no, I'm not. It's not about 'talent' as much as it is politics, and the perception of achievement.
TRTL,
I noticed that you're not drawing any attention at all to the sabotage by lefties in anything the conservatives were trying to achieve. Yes, things should have & would have been better were it not for the interfere for interference's sake policy of so many lefts. The left really is a most competent opposition. Take Health & Education for example. Everyone blamed the Howard Government for the abysmal state in those services, yet no-one wants to admit that literally 90% of departmental staff are staunch Labor supporters.