Was John Howard Australia’s worst Prime Minister?

Sunday 19 March 2017

Fairfax’s Crispin Hull penned a thought-provoking piece over the weekend claiming that Australia is “still plagued by destructive policies of John Howard, our worst prime minister”:

Howard led us into Iraq just to please the Americans and that the decision was based on a falsity. That decision cost a lot of blood and treasure and sucked Australia into the vortex of terrorism…

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About the author

Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.