John Winston Howard Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Winston Howard, Template:Post-nominals, (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister, after Sir Robert Menzies.Howard was a member of the House of Representatives from 1974 to 2007, representing the Division of Bennelong, New South Wales. He served as Treasurer in the Fraser government from 1977 to 1983. He was Leader of the Liberal Party and Coalition Opposition from 1985 to 1989, which included the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. He was re-elected as Leader of the Opposition in 1995.Howard led the Liberal-National coalition to victory at the 1996 federal election, defeating Paul Keating's Labor government and ending a record 13 years of Coalition opposition. The Howard Government was re-elected at the 1998, 2001 and 2004 elections. Major issues for the Howard Government included taxation, industrial relations, immigration, the Iraq war, and Aboriginal relations. Howard's coalition government was defeated at the 2007 election by the Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd. Howard also lost his own parliamentary seat at the election; he was the second Australian Prime Minister, after Stanley Bruce in 1929, to do so.
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
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Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
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Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
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I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
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I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
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We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
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Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
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It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
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I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
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I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
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I hate guns.
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We will decide who comes to our country and the circumstances in which they come.
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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
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You can't fatten the pig on market day.
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Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia [February 2009]
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He was awarded the A.C. (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister and through contributions to economic and social policy reform, fostering and promoting Australia's interests internationally, and the development of significant philanthropic links between the business sector, arts and charitable organizations.
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He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Australia.
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At the 2007 Australian Federal election, he became only the second standing Prime Minister to lose his seat in Parliament. He was defeated by the Labor candidate, Maxine McKew.
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Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Howard on Menzies: Building Modern Australia
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself - Presenter
Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!
2016
TV Movie documentary
Himself
CNN NewsCenter
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself - Former Prime Minister
CNN Newsroom
2014
TV Series
Himself - former prime minister
A Country Road: The Nationals
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Channel 4 News
2007-2014
TV Series
Himself - Prime Minister of Australia, 1996-2007 / Himself - Prime Minister of Australia
Who Do You Think You Are?
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
60 Minutes
1997-2013
TV Series
Himself - Former Prime Minister / Himself - Prime Minister
The Daily Show
2013
TV Series
Himself
The Bolt Report
2011
TV Series
Himself - Former Prime Minister
Insiders
2001-2011
TV Series
Himself - Prime Minister / Himself - Former Prime Minister