I doubt the gloss comes off Howards years in the general populations mind, he looked after them well when he was in power, and most want link the long term effects of his policies and their issues now. Academics and economists on the other hand, but the are all raving lefties anyway so will be dismissed.
I know you're being a little tongue in cheek - but if the smartest people in the country who base their opinions on science and research think something, isn't there a strong chance that they're right.
That "we" are so anti-intellectual in this country as to ignore them as lefties is one of this country's great shames.
Speaking of, the TV we bought with Kevin 07's budget stimulus is just starting to break
Mine too. I feel like a got a good 8 years out of my plasma, but the burn in is starting to become very noticeable, and I couldn't find anything I liked at a price I liked in the recent EOFY sales
The Opposition would oppose, that's no surprise. I am saying that if it was an ALP government communicating with GWB in the US they would've done the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm anti-war and probably side with the ALP over the Libs in most things, but the political reality at the time meant we were going in no matter who was in power (imo).
It actually was a surprise. I'm pretty sure it was the first time we'd committed troops to anything that didn't have bipartisan support since the 1960s.
He's actually right - the Rudd/Gillard government has a lasting legacy in the NBN (or at least the shell of it), in centrist workplace relations reform, and in the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The Howard legacy is the GST, a drastic lowering of political discourse in Australia (I don't know if you're old enough to remember Keating, but what a slippery slope the Howard years took us down), and pissing away the proceeds of the mining boom with tax cuts that were unsustainable and that would eventually lead us into debt when we had to pay for the infrastructure that we needed.