Major john howard
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John Howard
Professor the Hon. John Howard OM, A.C.
John Howard became the 25th prime minister following a decisive Federal election victory for the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition. He replaced Labor's Paul Keating.
Member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Main achievements (1996 to 2007)
Strong economic growth, low inflation and interest rates, lowest unemployment in 30 years, creation of around two million new jobs, and wage increases.
Introduced gun control with a federally-funded buy-back scheme in 1996.
Goods and Services consumption tax (GST) July 2000. GST revenue of around $40 billion per annum granted to the States and Territories.
Reform of industrial relations system. Replacement of award wages with direct employer- employee enterprise agreements. Introduction of WorkChoices 2006.
Gradual privatisation of Telstra, with initial billion dollar proceeds going to environmental funding.
Introduced principle of mutual obligation to social policy.
Committed Australian troops to international coalitions led by the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq as pa
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John Howard
Howard's entry into federal politics
John Howard entered the House of Representatives as Liberal member for the suburban Sydney seat of Bennelong at the general elections on 18 May 1974.
Howard first became a minister following the election of the coalition government of Malcolm Fraser in December 1975, taking on the business and consumer affairs portfolio, which he held until 1977.
From May to December 1977 he served as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and from July, as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations. In November that year, a month before the next federal elections, he was appointed Treasurer.
He held the position for more than five years, until the Fraser government lost office with the election of the Labor government led by Bob Hawke on 5 March 1983.
During the following 13 years of Labor government, Howard occupied a series of key positions in the shadow ministry. He was Shadow Treasurer and Deputy Liberal Party Leader (1983–1985) before replacing Andrew Peacock as Leader of the Opposition on 5 September 1985.
The change in leadership,
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WORKING CLASS LIFE
John Winston Howard was born in the south-western industrial suburb of Earlwood in Sydney, on 26 July 1939. He attended the local government primary school and later Canterbury Boys’ High School. His father, a garage proprietor, influenced his emerging political and economic views, impressing on him the importance of small business as an employment provider.
Earlwood Primary School, Class 1A, 1946 (John Howard is in the middle of the second row from the back)
Canterbury Boys' High School Cricket Team, Second XI, 1956 (John Howard is second from the right in the front row)
PARTY MAN
After studying law at the University of Sydney, Howard graduated in 1961, and then practised as a solicitor for the next twelve years. A committed Liberal Party member, he was soon deeply involved in its organisation; he joined the party’s New South Wales State Executive in 1963. He served as State Vice-President of the party 1972–1974.
FAMILY MAN
In 1971 Howard married Janette Parker, and they had a daughter
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