Australia’s misguided military forays into Afghanistan and Iraq/Syria, incredibly justified by Prime Minister John Howard invoking the ANZUS Treaty, ultimately proved unsuccessful and at considerable cost both financially and in human capital.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2023/05/26/how-should-australia-defend-itself-in-the-21st-century-silencing-the-drums-and-dogs-of-war/

Crean led the Australian from November 2001 to December 2003, a difficult period for the party after its third federal election defeat to John Howard.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/25/former-labor-leader-simon-crean-dies-age-74

Former prime minister John Howard also arrived to the Liberal’s election party at about, describing Mr Perrottet as “bold” and “heroic”.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/chris-minns-to-become-nsws-47th-premier-breaks-labors-12-year-dry-spell-c-10152696

He looks to John Howard as a model (one Liberal observer describes him as “a student of Howard”) and would probably run an orderly, conventional cabinet system.

Source: https://citynews.com.au/2023/dutton-for-pm-people-are-starting-to-wonder/

He said the John Howard Society does not use such devices at its facilities, and the reliance and trust placed in the technology by correctional authorities may need examination.

Source: https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/national_news/article_90ab5bdb-9e1f-55e6-8ed5-27e9ba87fd1d.html

John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia and his wife Janette Howard attend the State Memorial for Barry Humphries.

Source: https://www.9news.com.au/national/barry-humphries-state-funeral-in-pictures/1e776b73-7057-4cf4-93ac-a55bf6490a1d

One of two Diggers to die during the Iraq conflict, Jake Kovco, was shot by his own gun, and John Howard made a great show of attending the corporal’s funeral in his small Victorian High Country home town to calm fears and criticism about the war.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/cabinet-papers-on-iraq-war-decision-mia-20231231-p5eueu.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Subsidies to renewables have steadily mounted since John Howard, in what he considers to be his worst political decision, introduced the regulatory subsidy to renewable energy back in 2002.

Source: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/the-10-billion-cabal-of-renewable-subsidies-killing-coal/

That tag was an attempt to describe voters won over by former Liberal prime minister John Howard despite having attributes normally associated with Labor voters.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-s-voice-vote-the-suburbs-that-veered-wildly-to-yes-and-no-20231015-p5eccq.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Unleaded petrol hadn’t reached 92 cents per litre and John Howard was still Prime Minister.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/06/09/folbigg-pardon-madonna-king/