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Self-proclaimed as the "most conservative leader the Liberal Party has ever had", Howard's political vision combines a lassiez-faire economic policy, with highly conservative social views. The Howard government has emphasised a tight rein on government spending and tight restrictions on welfare (including "work for the dole" schemes that require the unemployed to participate in make-work projects). Howard has expressed views that indicate he is opposed to an indepdendent Australian republic (Australia, although an independent nation, remains constitutionally subject to the British monarchy) He has been heavily criticised for his political positions with regard to Australia's indigenous people, and particularly for his refusals to formally apologise for the stolen generation or create a formal treaty with the indigenous population. (A landmark court case in 1992 entitled Mabo having ruled that Australia had been illegally occupied by the British in 1788). |
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During the * achievements (gun law reform, GST/healthy economy generally, East Timor) * large popular success but elite disdain (reconciliation, republic, immigration, asylum seekers, 1950's social policy) * won a third election on economic management, defense, Tampa crisis and September 11 terrorist attacks. |
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Self-proclaimed as the "most conservative leader the Liberal Party has ever had", Howard's political vision combines a lassiez-faire economic policy, with highly conservative social views. The Howard government has emphasised a tight rein on government spending and tight restrictions on welfare (including "work for the dole" schemes that require the unemployed to participate in make-work projects). His government cut funding to the [Australian Broadcasting Commission]?. It hasadically increased university fees, tilted the welfare and taxation systems towards single-income families and away from the childless and single people, overruled the government of the Northern Territory when it introduced the world's first legislation providing for legal voluntary euthenasia? for the terminally ill (but refused to do so over mandatory sentencing laws inspired by California's "three strikes" laws despite heavy pressure to do so from outside his party and within it). It has used its customs powers to prevent state governments from trialling the prescription of heroin by doctors as a treatment for drug addicts. Howard has expressed views that indicate he is opposed to an indepdendent Australian republic (Australia, although an independent nation, remains constitutionally subject to the British monarchy) He has been heavily criticised for his political positions with regard to Australia's indigenous people, and particularly for his refusals to formally apologise for the stolen generation or create a formal treaty with the indigenous population. (A landmark court case in 1992 entitled Mabo having ruled that Australia had been illegally occupied by the British in 1788). |
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