As this article notes Howard and Harper were soul mates. Lippert was smart enough to know that Harper would find Howard's speech perfectly fitting. Both fit the same mould of supporting the Bush PNAC agenda and serving as junior partners to the US. Both also had the same right wing agenda and used the clever campaign tactics noted by Flanagan.
Harper, Howard had close ties TheStar.com - Federal Election - Harper, Howard had close ties
October 01, 2008 Richard BrennanOttawa Bureau
OTTAWA–The Harper government was only months olds when Australian Prime Minister John Howard was the first foreign leader invited to address Parliament in 2006.
The invitation reflected the close ties between Howard's government and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's. Howard headed Australia's Liberal party, which despite its name, is "small-c" conservative.
As Harper was putting together a campaign strategy, his advisers drew strength from Howard's four straight election wins, former Harper campaign manager and adviser Tom Flanagan wrote in his 2007 book, Harper's Team.
"Howard has appealed to what he dubbed the `battlers,' families struggling to raise their children on modest incomes – working hard, paying their taxes, playing by the rules, to paraphrase rhetoric that we would use in the coming (2006) election," Flanagan wrote.
Patrick Muttart, now Harper's deputy chief of staff, and Flanagan arranged meetings between Harper and Howard, who shared favourable views of the Iraq war, and opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. "In effect, Patrick set out to recast our appeal in terms familiar to John Howard's battlers," wrote Flanagan.
Australia's national newspaper, The Australian, in May 2006 described Harper's campaign "as being straight from Howard's Australian election handbook in almost every way." Howard was one of the closest allies of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration, with Australia joining the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
When Harper visited Australia in 2007 for an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit, he became the first Canadian prime minister to address the country's parliament, where he lauded Australia's contribution to the war on terrorism.
In Australia's election last November, Labour Leader Kevin Rudd swept to power. Howard lost his own seat in parliament.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Bush Doggsy Twins
This is then premier Howard the Australian Bush lapdog together with his Canadian soulmate Stephen Harper his Canadian twin. This is from the Sidney Morning Herald.
We now know that a former Harper speech writer, fellow of the Fraser Institute, and fellow right wing campaigner who was working in the present election was the actual plagiarist. Harper would have come up with the same substance anyway even if he wrote his own speech.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Labor wins Australian Election
THis is from Times on Line. It seems that the right wing labor policy of Howard helped do him in. He even lost his own seat. At the last moment it seemed as is Howard was catching up but the seat total shows that Labor was still in good shape.
Labor Party wins Australian election
(Rob Griffith)
By Bernard Lagan in Sydney
Australia's long-serving conservative government not only lost yesterday's Australian election but its leader, John Howard, became only the second Prime Minister in Australia's history to lose his seat in Parliament.
The Australian Labor Party, out of power nationally since 1996, stormed back into government, winning at least 20 more seats in Australia's 150-seat House of Representatives. The Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, 50, needed only 16 extra seats to form Government.
Mr Rudd, a former diplomat and China specialist, will have Australia's first female deputy Prime Minister at his side - Julia Gillard, a former lawyer.
There were wild scenes at the national election tally room in Australia's capital, Canberra, last night as hundreds of people queued for entry to witness a historic change of government after nearly 12 years of conservative rule by Mr Howard's Liberal-National Coalition.
Election defeat looms for ‘big spender’ John Howard
Only once before since the beginning of the Australian federation in 1901 has a sitting Prime Minister been thrown out of his seat at a general election. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce lost his seat in the 1929 election after becoming deeply unpopular for attempting to erode the rights of workers.
Members of Mr Howard's own Government conceded last night that 68-year-old Howard's controversial Work Choices laws, which also curtailed workers' rights, were a major factor in his loss of Government and of his Parliamentary seat of Bennelong in suburban Sydney which he held for 33 years.
Australia's long-serving former Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, who left office in 1993, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) television election panel that it was ironic that Mr Howard's long political career had ended with the loss of his seat in Parliament.
He said that like Bruce, Mr Howard had been voted out because he had reduced workers' rights.
"It's a delicious irony and repetition of history," Mr Hawke told ABC television's election night panel.
Mr Howard conceded the defeat of his government shortly before 11pm last night, saying he accepted full responsibility for the defeat and he wished the Labor leader, Mr Rudd, well.
Mr Howard said the Labor Party had won an emphatic victory.
"I have bequeathed to him [Mr Rudd] a nation that is stronger, prouder and more prosperous than it was 11½ ago," Mr Howard said.
Mr Howard made clear that he believed his Treasurer, Mr Peter Costello, should succeed him as leader of the Australian Liberal Party. Mr Howard had previously said that if he won the election he would have handed over to Mr Costello in the middle of his term.
Mr Rudd appeared at his Brisbane campaign headquarters shortly after 11pm to rowdy scenes of welcome.
His first public words as Prime Minister were: "OK, guys."
He said: " Australia has looked to the future. The Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward."
He said he wished to put aside what he called old battles between employers and unions and developers and environmentalists.
"The great Australian 'fair go' has a future and not a past," said Mr Rudd.
Mr Rudd won his loudest applause when he paid tribute to a dying worker, Mr Bernie Banton, suffering from workplace- induced cancer. He said Mr Banton, engaged in a deathbed battle for compensation from his employer, was a beacon for Australian trade unionism and workers.
A former television presenter, Maxine McKew, stood for the Labor Party and appeared to have defeated Mr Howard in his Sydney suburban seat of Bennelong.
A jubilant Ms McKew, told her supporters last night: "This has been an amazing night - a wonderful night for the Labor Party. A fabulous - I hope - transforming moment for the country."
Nick Michin, the Finance Minister in the Horward Government and a close confidant of Mr Howard, said on ABC TV last night: "The industrial relations reforms may well have cost us this election."
Labor Party wins Australian election
(Rob Griffith)
By Bernard Lagan in Sydney
Australia's long-serving conservative government not only lost yesterday's Australian election but its leader, John Howard, became only the second Prime Minister in Australia's history to lose his seat in Parliament.
The Australian Labor Party, out of power nationally since 1996, stormed back into government, winning at least 20 more seats in Australia's 150-seat House of Representatives. The Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, 50, needed only 16 extra seats to form Government.
Mr Rudd, a former diplomat and China specialist, will have Australia's first female deputy Prime Minister at his side - Julia Gillard, a former lawyer.
There were wild scenes at the national election tally room in Australia's capital, Canberra, last night as hundreds of people queued for entry to witness a historic change of government after nearly 12 years of conservative rule by Mr Howard's Liberal-National Coalition.
Election defeat looms for ‘big spender’ John Howard
Only once before since the beginning of the Australian federation in 1901 has a sitting Prime Minister been thrown out of his seat at a general election. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce lost his seat in the 1929 election after becoming deeply unpopular for attempting to erode the rights of workers.
Members of Mr Howard's own Government conceded last night that 68-year-old Howard's controversial Work Choices laws, which also curtailed workers' rights, were a major factor in his loss of Government and of his Parliamentary seat of Bennelong in suburban Sydney which he held for 33 years.
Australia's long-serving former Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, who left office in 1993, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) television election panel that it was ironic that Mr Howard's long political career had ended with the loss of his seat in Parliament.
He said that like Bruce, Mr Howard had been voted out because he had reduced workers' rights.
"It's a delicious irony and repetition of history," Mr Hawke told ABC television's election night panel.
Mr Howard conceded the defeat of his government shortly before 11pm last night, saying he accepted full responsibility for the defeat and he wished the Labor leader, Mr Rudd, well.
Mr Howard said the Labor Party had won an emphatic victory.
"I have bequeathed to him [Mr Rudd] a nation that is stronger, prouder and more prosperous than it was 11½ ago," Mr Howard said.
Mr Howard made clear that he believed his Treasurer, Mr Peter Costello, should succeed him as leader of the Australian Liberal Party. Mr Howard had previously said that if he won the election he would have handed over to Mr Costello in the middle of his term.
Mr Rudd appeared at his Brisbane campaign headquarters shortly after 11pm to rowdy scenes of welcome.
His first public words as Prime Minister were: "OK, guys."
He said: " Australia has looked to the future. The Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward."
He said he wished to put aside what he called old battles between employers and unions and developers and environmentalists.
"The great Australian 'fair go' has a future and not a past," said Mr Rudd.
Mr Rudd won his loudest applause when he paid tribute to a dying worker, Mr Bernie Banton, suffering from workplace- induced cancer. He said Mr Banton, engaged in a deathbed battle for compensation from his employer, was a beacon for Australian trade unionism and workers.
A former television presenter, Maxine McKew, stood for the Labor Party and appeared to have defeated Mr Howard in his Sydney suburban seat of Bennelong.
A jubilant Ms McKew, told her supporters last night: "This has been an amazing night - a wonderful night for the Labor Party. A fabulous - I hope - transforming moment for the country."
Nick Michin, the Finance Minister in the Horward Government and a close confidant of Mr Howard, said on ABC TV last night: "The industrial relations reforms may well have cost us this election."
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Labor should win in Australian election
The spread is nowhere near that between Sask Party and NDP in Saskatachewan but it depends upon how votes are distributed obviously. The election is on Nov. 24. The Labor party will join the Kyoto accord.This is from this site.
Poll shows Australian PM heading for defeat
17 Nov 2007, 1053 hrs IST,AFP
SYDNEY: Prime Minister John Howard will enter the final week of Australia's election campaign well behind his opposition rival Kevin Rudd, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
A news poll published in the Australian newspaper covering the 18 most marginal seats held by Howard's conservative government showed Rudd's centre-left Labour party ahead 54 percent to 46.
The newspaper said if the results of the poll were duplicated in next Saturday's election, Labour would win between 18 and 25 seats, comfortably ahead of the 16 it needs to gain power.
It said one of the seats to fall to Labour under such a scenario would be Howard's own electorate of Bennelong in Sydney's suburbs.
Labour's 54-46 lead in the poll of 3,600 voters is identical to the findings of a separate survey published on Friday in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Australian newspaper said in an editorial that it appeared Howard's Liberal-National coalition was headed for defeat on November 24 after almost 12 years in office.
"After four terms, the coalition appears to have run out of luck and lost the attention of voters," it said.
But Howard told the newspaper that he did not detect a "visceral hostility" towards him or his government among the public.
"I think there are a lot of people who are quite undecided and I think this election is anybody's at this present time, that's my strong view," he said.
Poll shows Australian PM heading for defeat
17 Nov 2007, 1053 hrs IST,AFP
SYDNEY: Prime Minister John Howard will enter the final week of Australia's election campaign well behind his opposition rival Kevin Rudd, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
A news poll published in the Australian newspaper covering the 18 most marginal seats held by Howard's conservative government showed Rudd's centre-left Labour party ahead 54 percent to 46.
The newspaper said if the results of the poll were duplicated in next Saturday's election, Labour would win between 18 and 25 seats, comfortably ahead of the 16 it needs to gain power.
It said one of the seats to fall to Labour under such a scenario would be Howard's own electorate of Bennelong in Sydney's suburbs.
Labour's 54-46 lead in the poll of 3,600 voters is identical to the findings of a separate survey published on Friday in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Australian newspaper said in an editorial that it appeared Howard's Liberal-National coalition was headed for defeat on November 24 after almost 12 years in office.
"After four terms, the coalition appears to have run out of luck and lost the attention of voters," it said.
But Howard told the newspaper that he did not detect a "visceral hostility" towards him or his government among the public.
"I think there are a lot of people who are quite undecided and I think this election is anybody's at this present time, that's my strong view," he said.
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