John Howard Has Gone A Bridge Too

As Nations We Should Also Commit Afresh To Righting Past Wrongs. In Australia We Began This Recently With The First Australians - The Oldest Continuing Culture In Human History. On Behalf Of The Australian Parliament, This Year I Offered An Apology To Indigenous Australians For The Wrongs They Had Suffered In The Past.

The Alternatives [to The Stimulus Packages] Were To Do Nothing Or, Worse, Effectively Replicate The Premiers' Plan Of 1931 When Governments Cut Expenditure, Thereby Compounding The Problems Created By A Private Sector Already In Retreat. The Result, Of Course, Was An Economic Rout, Appalling Unemployment And A Decade Of Negligible Growth Through The 1930s

For Australians, Climate Change Is No Longer A Distant Threat. Our Rivers Are Dying, Bush Fires Are More Ferocious And More Frequent And Our Natural Wonders - The Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, Our Rainforests - Are Now At Risk.

John Howard's Credibility On The Entire Iraq War Has Been Torpedoed By John Howard's Own Intelligence Agency.

Building A New Health And Hospitals Network Is Fundamental To Building A Stronger And Fairer Australia.