Dear King Hazza,

The following website clears things up:

http://www.news.com.au/ex-pm-john-howard-costs-taxpayers-more-in-retirement/story-O-1225757105993

It seems that John Howard does indeed cost taxpayers more in
retirement than he did as PM. However, my apologies - Malcolm
Fraser was a big spender - and it was Paul Keating who took
the least.

Anyway, I intend to buy the book - simply because I'm curious
to find out more about 1975 - and the history of events - from
the horse's mouth so to speak. I believe in leaving myself
open to learning - and getting information from all sorts of
sources. I enjoyed Peter Costello's book very much.
And Margaret Whitlam's - just to name a couple.

I don't read books to find out what was "nice" about people -
simply to find out what made them tick - and to capture the
context in which events took place - learning something
about the characters involved in the process.

But to each his own...

Fair enough Foxy;

Although on the side of curiosity and wanting to know the inner workings, I would actually be surprised he would talk about them in much detail (especially anything secretive)- he doesn't seem to touch political corruption very much in any of his previous speeches, and seems to ignore it as an issue quite a bit...

Most of them paint a rather black-and-white world of liberalism/enlightenment vs fascism/communism/regression.

I if I do not spend too much on big boys toys on Sunday get the book on Monday.
A fair amount has been printed in news papers but I do not have any of the cynicism of King Hazza about it, any history that was so important to me then is just as interesting now.