Some minutes before a scraggly Q&A audience member threw his shoes at John Howard, the former prime minister said he was ‘in broad agreement with the thrust’ of last week’s cover editorial in this magazine titled ‘Howard the Great’.
Some minutes before a scraggly Q&A audience member threw his shoes at John Howard, the former prime minister said he was ‘in broad agreement with the thrust’ of last week’s cover editorial in this magazine titled ‘Howard the Great’. Well, we are not sure that were he to go a second round with Tony Jones, he’d be so positive about this week’s Spectator Australia. Because with the official launch of his memoirs Lazarus Rising, we think Mr Howard has somewhat tarnished his legacy. Not just because he won’t accept the full blame for the defeat of his government in 2007 or for the loss of the Bennelong seat he’d held for almost 35 years.
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