#johnhoward — Public Fediverse posts

Social cohesion has lost its feelgood vibe. What will it take to offer a fair go for all? https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/mar/23/social-cohesion-meaning-has-lost-feelgood-vibe #Society #AustralianImmigrationAndAsylum #BondiBeachTerrorAttack #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #JohnHoward

@earthmothering9 Oh wow, a whole book on where it all went wrong? Bold of Amy to assume it didn't start going wrong the second Little Johnny picked up the keys to the lodge. Enjoy the read—may it come with a strong coffee and even stronger sense of impending generational doom

#johnhoward

IS THIS THE SPEECH OF THE DECADE? Amy Remeikis comes out with guns blazing on the back of her new book 'Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard'. If you are sick of political doublespeak and sick of our dysfunctional economy, you will love this. I'm buying the book!! Please boost! @auspol #JohnHoward
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/the-radio-national-hour/106329234

Tony Abbott intervenes in Liberal leadership battle calling on right to unite to oust Sussan Ley
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/tony-abbott-calls-on-conservatives-to-unite-and-oust-sussan-ley-/106278112

It hurts me to say this, but: Susssan Ley is right. She's recognised that if the Liberal Party is to survive, to present itself as a credible Opposition, and have more than just a dream of winning an election in the next decade, it needs to be overhauled.

Susssan Ley has a mountain of work ahead of her if she's trying to reform and modernise the Liberal Party. This comes after years that cannot be swept under the carpet, and memories that stretch back so far in people's minds that we have a clear picture of what is "normal" for the Liberal Party. Some people like Tony Abbott want that "tradition" that he was part of and benefited from to persist, and for the rest of us to forget the aspects that were terrible for most people in Australia.

But, who can forget the lies and racism and RWNJ extremism resembling Nazism of the Malignant Potato Peter Dutton, the lies and racism and self-serving religious quackery of the Liar from the Shire Scott Morrison, the lies and racism and outrageous sexism and anti-intellectualism and cruelty disguised as boofheadedness of The Mad Monk Tony Abbott, the lies and racism and nonsensical neo-con ideology of Malcolm Turnbull, and the lies and racism and mean-spirited divide-and-conquer class-warfare of John Howard?

#AusPol #SussanLey #SusssanLey #PeterDutton #TheMalignantPotato #ScottMorrison #ScottyFromMarketing #TonyAbbott #TheMadMonk #MalcolmTurnbull #JohnHoward

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005 #CabinetPapers #ClimateCrisis #AlexanderDowner #JohnHoward #KevinRudd #AustraliaNews #Energy #GreenhouseGasEmissions #AustralianEconomy #RenewableEnergy

@dyckron That article really highlights the long-term consequences of that era. It’s hard to look back at the 2005 cabinet papers and not feel that John Howard was the biggest mistake Australia has ever made.
#auspol #history #johnhoward #iraqwar

#ausPol #bondi #johnHoward #gunControl

I'll take "Signs we've done the right thing" for $800, thanks Alex..

#AusPol #Australia #JohnHoward #israel #Gaza #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation #DeathToTheIDF

How John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five charts
#auspol #johnhoward #lnpfail

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-20/migration-figures-under-prime-minister-john-howard/9465114?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

#JohnHoward Ruined Australia #auspol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjH1o0iqzTo&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQtIHCQmtCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

@jhaue Sage advice. The shadow of #JohnHoward is long

@DjityDjity @andyjennings
AIUI large changes after Royal Commission reported in 2021.

Are you refering to changes made by #JohnHoward etc?

Link has what should now be in place.

(A failure to provide adequate registered nurse hours resulted in a vulnerable parent of mine being stupified, weakened and falling multiple times due to a new medication. So no confidence in facility managers. & doubts about the public servants meant to be ensuring quality. cf #RoboDebt.)

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/247-registered-nurses-in-aged-care-homes?language=en

Two questions for those with some knowledge of Australian law:

Is it a crime under Australian law (whether federal or state) to incite the commission of #WarCrimes and/or #CrimesAgainstHumanity?

Would enthusiastic public advocacy for the Commonwealth government to (openly)* join the wildly illegal #WarOfAggression launched by #Israel + #US forces against #Iran (including celebrating the deliberate targeting of civilians)** be prima facie evidence of such a crime?

Since Australia has still not arrested #JohnHoward for his crimes in helping to launch an earlier disastrous war of aggression 22 years ago, I'm not holding my breath here, but I would like to know whether/which laws are being ignored when (for instance) a high-profile weapons lobbyist urges the federal government to commit illegal acts by joining this latest war of aggression (completely unauthorised by the UN Security Council).

*See: #PineGap.
**The 10+ scientists assassinated (often along with their families and neighbours) by Israel's initial strikes were civilians. Israel has openly admitted, even boasted, that these individuals (non-combatants under #InternationalLaw) were specifically targeted with overwhelmingly lethal force.

#Auspol #AusLaw #WarCrimes #ScottMorrison

#Auspol #OneNation #Election2025
the slippery slope of policies deciding some lives are more important than others… which we are now seeing bear fruit in USA 🤔

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on immigration <This remains part of the party's policy platform, which includes "deporting 75,000 illegal migrants" and "cutting immigration by over 570,000 people" from current levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year.

In 2001, then Liberal prime minister #JohnHoward demanded One Nation be placed last on the party's how-to-vote cards.

He later defended the WA Liberal's 2017 preference deal with One Nation, saying "everyone changes in 16 years".>
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and
<<Now, it is disaffected Liberal voters generally, just as a lot of Greens voters are disaffected Labor voters, rather than voters who are desperately concerned about immigration.

"On paper, both major parties are addressing that anyway.">>

From preferences to polling: Could One Nation gain more power this election?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/could-one-nation-gain-more-power-this-election/bx90wjmqs?cid=newsapp:socialshare:copylink

@fixatedpersonsunit

Dutton in 2003, backing up #JohnHoward and the "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq on the grounds of #FakeNews, lies and the need to #BrownNose #GWBush.

"Australia has chosen to forward deploy elements of the Australian defence forces as part of its moral obligation to ensure where possible ongoing stability around the world." - #PeterDutton

#AusPol

Mainstream media in Australia might finally be starting to wake-up and call-out Trump and his cronies.

Years ago, the Sun-Herald used to be Sydney's broadsheet newspaper, but it has long since lost its sense of balance and political teeth after being bought-out by a succession of increasingly right-wing media moguls. It's quite remarkable that they're printing a headline like this now.

The headline is a reference to a sledge aimed at cowardly, right-wing, yes-men for their support for the invasion of Iraq, "There they are a conga line of suckholes on the conservative side of politics." It was delivered by former ALP Leader of the Opposition and aspiring PM, Mark Latham (when he still sounded sane; long before he got RWNJ brainworms). I've always wondered about that particular line, and mused that his speechwriters were tapping into a vein of former Prime Minster, Paul Keating. He once said John Howard was "Like a shiver waiting for a spine to crawl up."

Amusingly, the subeditor misnamed Jeff Bezos as "Geoff Bezos" in the caption.

This picture was originally posted by someone else on Mastodon without Alt-text, so I have liberated it and added Alt-text.

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Zelensky #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #USPol #AusPol #MarkLatham #PaulKeating #JohnHoward #AltText #UseAltText #JeffBezos #ElonMusk

@MsDropbear42

"The newly released official history chapter shows those arguments were made in full knowledge of the Indonesian military’s orchestration of atrocities in an effort to prevent East Timor from becoming independent and with a clear expectation of the violence that would follow an independence vote in the absence of an international peacekeeping presence."

200,000 dead East Timorese?
#AlexanderDowner and #JohnHoward condoning genocide by #TNI.

@tonycart
Yes the possibility is becoming apparent with Dutton having a major party sounding like the fringe nationalist One Nation party from decades ago.

And the arc from John Howard to Tony Abbott to Morrison to Dutton is looking more and more like a direction that will be continued.

The article' places the roots in "failures of neoliberalism and globalism".

I doubt this is an very helpful explanation.

#GraeberAndWengrowe
#TheDawnOfEverything
#Capitalism
#JohnHoward
#OneNation
#Dutton

@[email protected] We had a prime minister like that…

#JohnHoward #uramium #auspol

@cheryanne

#TakeABow #JohnHoward, #KevinRudd, #JuliaGillard, #TonyAbbott, #MalcolmTurnbull, #ScottMorrison and #AnthonyAlbanese.
Together you've got 35% of #Australians down to where they haven't got $3,000 to rub together.

#RingKissers all.

#AusPol
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BYLC3WOfPfI/maxresdefault.jpg

Australia's #housingcrisis is a complex issue . Several factors and policies over decades have contributed to the current state of the housing market, including:

1. Supply and Demand: A growing population, increased immigration numbers, particularly in major cities, has driven up demand for housing. Limited supply, due to zoning laws and other regulations, has exacerbated the issue.

2. Negative Gearing and Capital Gains Tax Concessions: Policies that allow property investors to deduct losses on rental properties from their taxable income (negative gearing) and concessions on #capitalgains tax have been criticized for inflating property prices. These policies have been in place for many years and have been supported by both major political parties at different times.

3. #ForeignInvestment: Increased foreign investment in Australian property, particularly from Chinese buyers, has also been cited as a factor driving up prices. Policies regulating foreign investment have evolved over time but have often been seen as insufficient.

4. Monetary Policy: Low interest rates set by the Reserve Bank of Australia (#RBA ) have made borrowing cheaper, contributing to higher property prices.

5. Government Incentives: Various government incentives, such as first-home buyer grants and other subsidies, while intended to help buyers enter the market, can also contribute to price inflation by increasing demand.

6. Urban Planning: Inefficient urban planning and infrastructure development have limited the availability of affordable housing, particularly in well-connected areas.

If one were to identify a turning point, some analysts point to the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the tenure of Prime Minister #JohnHoward, when policies like the relaxation of capital gains tax in 1999 and the support for #negativegearing were solidified. These policies are often cited as significant contributors to the property investment boom.

However, it is important to recognise that both major political parties in Australia (Liberal and Labor) have had opportunities to address these issues over the years and have made various policy decisions that have contributed to the current situation.
#rentalcrisis #auseconomy