At a time when Australia and its allies face difficult regional and international challenges, Angus Campbell, the Chief of Army, has the credentials and ... From 2005, he gained strategic experience, joining the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under John Howard as a first assistant secretary to head ...

Australia's rate of immigration nearly doubled on John Howard's watch, but that simple fact was concealed by his "tough stance" on asylum seekers. Indeed, since Howard refused the Tampa the right to dock after it rescued 433 Afghan asylum seekers back in 2001 Australia has welcomed about 3 million ...

Human Rights Watch boss urges Australia to 'do the hard thing', but Grahame Morris says he's sick of people from overseas 'giving us curry' ... But the comments from American-based Roth drew scorn from Grahame Morris, the former chief of staff to then-prime minister John Howard, in what proved the ...

And yet, John Howard was the last prime minister to defy crippling polls and still win elections. ... record popularity - his party panicked and chose Julia Gillard ... and she and the party did so poorly no one knew who would govern Australia for several days until she won the support of two independents.

John Howard just makes the election less winnable by declaring it's still winnable, in an intervention that just adds to the air of crisis: Former prime minister John Howard says the Liberal Party have to pull their heads in and “work together” or risk losing the next election. Talk about petrol on fire: Ahead of ...

On Thursday, Home Affairs Minister, and leading conservative, Peter Dutton conceded Australia is "on track for a Shorten-led government" before pledging his support for Mr Turnbull's leadership. In a blunt message, Mr Howard told Liberals to "bury your differences" and reminded them they had a collective ...

He's very clear on what needs to be done and what he wants to do to rebuild South Australia's economic base, job prospects and population.” Senior SA federal Liberal and Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne, to whom Labor has suggested Mr Marshall is beholden, said the Premier would be ...

John Howard has defended his decision to commit Australia to the 2003 invasion of Iraq after Kevin Rudd accused him of lying about Saddam Hussein's ... Mr Rudd, who succeeded Mr Howard as prime minister in 2007, said the 2003 Iraq invasion represented one of the nation's “two great foreign policy ...

John Howard says there is evidence Nick Xenophon has overreached in his political ambition to field 36 candidates at the South Australian election this month ... The former Liberal prime minister, in Adelaide this week on the campaign trail with Opposition Leader Steven Marshall, yesterday said there was ...

Butler, a former union secretary before he entered federal politics, observed that union membership collapsed in the 1990s as John Howard brought in waves of ..... The prime minister, the treasurer, and the governor of Australia's central bank insist the rules of supply and demand between wages and ...

John Howard Speaks Out About US Gun Control On FIVEaa. Mar 2, 2018 ... Former Prime Minister John Howard says there looks to be some positive signs on US gun control following the high school shooting in Florida last month.

... minister John Howard has campaigned in Adelaide, bolstering Opposition Leader Steven Marshall's chances of winning the March state election. Mr Howard pressed the flesh at a suburban shopping centre on Thursday with his popularity still evident among a large group of voters. The former PM's trip to ...

In response to the 1996 shooting, John Howard, then Australia's conservative prime minister, moved quickly, introducing a federal law to officially make guns a privilege, not a right. Gun owners were forced to provide a valid reason for owning a weapon, such as farming or hunting. Licensing rules were ...

Cricket Australia officials are still lobbying to gain enough support to install John Howard as the ICC's vice-president in Singapore over the next two days. The appointment of Howard, the former Australia prime minister, is supposed to be a formality but it has become increasingly uncertain following ...

Former prime minister Tony Abbott wants Australia to cut its immigration intake to what it was under the Howard government. He told an internet radio station on Tuesday afternoon that "we've got to get the numbers down, and get them down very significantly". "[John] Howard got them down 30 per cent in ...

... by saying that “nothing speaks more eloquently” on gun control than former prime minister John Howard's leadership after Australia's Port Arthur massacre. ... “We have a great deal to thank John Howard, and indeed Tim Fischer who supported him as leader of the Nationals at the time, for taking up the ...

Perhaps the clearest is what Australian Prime Minister John Howard did in the wake of that country's deadliest mass shooting, the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. On April 28, 1996, a 28-year-old man with a troubled past named Martin Bryant walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, a tourist town on the island of ...

Malcolm Turnbull is a goner unless he can emulate John Howard's Houdini-like skills by a mixture of shrewd backdowns, shameless vote-buying, ruthless opportunism and luck. Mathias Cormann, captain of the Prime Minister's praetorian guard, is hopeful Mr Turnbull can do just that. On Monday, as the ...

World cricket is set for a serious political rift over the nomination of John Howard, the former Australian prime minister, as the president-designate of the ICC. The cricket boards of South Africa and Zimbabwe are leading an initiative to block Howard's nomination, while Australia and New Zealand, who jointly ...