I understand the Howards are still living at Kirribilli.
The man can’t even leave with grace and dignity.
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Scene: A back room at the Wentworth Hotel, 9:30, saturday, November 24.
The soon-to-be-ex PM is rehearsing an especially tricky section of his concession speech with a coach from Crosby Textor.
Crosby Textor Coach: Now, deep breath and try again. You can do this!
Rodent: I t-t-t-t-take…
CTC: C’mon…
Rodent: I t-t-t-take fuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaargh!
CTC: Full.
Rodent: fuuuaaaaaaargh! Respoooooooooooniiiiiibleeeee…
CTC: Res-pon-si-bil-ity.
Rodent: Yes, I AM […]

This one kind of got lost in the doublespeak and spittle about the difference between an apology and saying sorry, but it is worth noting in its own right:

When asked by a talkback radio host in Melbourne today whether he agreed with the statement Australians have never been better off, Mr Howard, who was in […]

Whoever becomes the next prime minister should be given a week or two to settle in, and then some time in early December he should be invited to go and spend a couple of hours with a self-appointed group of eminent Australians … let’s call them Australian elders. People who are demonstrably concerned with the […]

More negativity!!!! No wonder this country is going to the dogs. Where’s the good old Aussie spirit of Just Do It??? Here we’ve got a gallant prime minister trying his damndest to fix the problems that afflict our society and all he gets is nagging practical objections.
This time it’s the bloody doctors … yet […]

Through the pain, Doris could hear a familiar voice saying “I’m sorry you’ve taken a fall but please don’t construe that as an apology.”

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The latest edition of the Lancet is less than impressed with Mr Howard’s record on Aboriginal health and even reconciliation.  They quote Ian Anderson, professor of indigenous health at the University of Melbourne, who refers to the Government’s refusal to sign the UN treaty on indigenous rights and also says:
“The best thing that John Howard […]

The bloke just keeps getting better and better. Stand up all those pundits who’ve been describing Howard for years as a political colossus, the man who can pull not just a rabbit but a whole warren out of a dumb looking Akubra, Mandrake Howard the Magician who can gesture hypnotically and have half the population […]

Gosh Liberal politics is hard to understand sometimes. No wonder so many people have stopped paying attention completely.
It’s like trying to barge into a game of backyard cricket. There are so many rules that only the players know. Like you hit a great shot and get told to hand over the bat, cos the wattle […]

Why, J-Ho, of course! He and Peter Costello have been going on and on and … on about how interest rates are lower than they were under Paul Keating and even if interest rates are going up, well, they’re still lower than they would be in some, well, parallel universe where Labor is governing, […]