Lazarus Rising

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John Howard. Lazarus Rising

Contents

1 THE SOURCE

2 INDULGING THE TASTE

3 DRUMMOYNE

4 REGROUPING AND REBUILDING

5 ‘THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN’

6 A SAFE SEAT

7 THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR BENNELONG

8 FRASER TAKES OVER

9 THE DISMISSAL

10 A MINISTER

11 ‘MAY I SPEAK TO THE TREASURER?’

12 ‘YOUR INDIRECT TAX IS DEAD, COBBER’

13 FOOLED BY FLINDERS

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14 PEACOCK VS HOWARD

15 LEADER BY ACCIDENT

16 JOH FOR PM

17 THE COUP

18 THE ‘UNLOSABLE’ ELECTION

19 LAZARUS HAS HIS TRIPLE BYPASS

20 THE ROAD TO THE LODGE

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Plate 22

Plate 23

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Plate 27

Plate 28

Plate 29

Plate 30

Plate 31

Plate 32

21 SHAPING THE GOVERNMENT

22 SEIZING THE DAY ON GUNS

23 PAULINE HANSON

24 THE FOUNDATION BUDGET

25 THE CHALLENGE OF INDIGENOUS POLICY

26 ON THE WATERFRONT

27 THE HOLY GRAIL OF TAX REFORM

28 WE STILL WANT YOU, MA’AM — THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE

29 THE LIBERATION OF EAST TIMOR

30 AN EXCESS OF EXCISE — THE PRE-TAMPA RECOVERY

31 WASHINGTON, 11 SEPTEMBER 2001

32 MV TAMPA

33 THE BALI ATTACK

34 IRAQ

35 GEORGE BUSH

36 BLUE COLLARS AND GREEN SLEEVES — LATHAM’S IMPLOSION

37 THE HUMAN DIVIDEND

38 SHAKESPEARE IN MANDARIN

39 ASIA FIRST, NOT ASIA ONLY

40 A WONDER DOWN UNDER

41 OUR WARM, DRY LAND

42 BILLY GETS A JOB, BUT WHO CARES?

43 SHOPPING CENTRES, BOARDROOMS AND DRESSING ROOMS

44 THE LEADERSHIP

45 THE TIDE RUNS OUT

46 REFLECTIONS

APPENDIX

NOTES. PART 1: Early Life and the Fraser Government

PART 2: The Opposition Years

PART 3: Prime Minister

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INDEX

CREDITS

Copyright. HarperCollinsPublishers

About the Publisher

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To my parents, who gave me the values and determination I took into public life

To John Carrick, my mentor, from whom I learned more about politics than anyone else

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From a young age I was an avid reader of the Biggles books, authored by Captain W.E. Johns, which told the story of a group of British airmen who not only fought heroically in the Battle of Britain but did other great things in defence of liberty. A little later I devoured books such as Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill, an Australian, which covered the amazing war service of Douglas Bader, who lost both legs but resumed flying in the Royal Air Force (RAF); The Dambusters, the saga of the RAF bombing raids on the dams of the Ruhr Valley; and Nicholas Monsarrat’s classic The Cruel Sea. This book, which like the other two led to a film of the same name, covered the perils and heavy human losses involved in keeping open the sea lanes from Britain to Russia through the North Sea. Barely a decade had passed since the end of World War II and books and films about aspects of that huge conflict abounded.

I read a lot of sporting books, naturally starting with cricket. Two which I still have in the sports section of my bookshelves at home are Straight Hit, co-written by Keith Miller, one of Australia’s greatest-ever all-rounders, and R.S. Whitington. It told of the West Indies’ tour of Australia in 1951–52. I read it again and again over a period of years. The other was A Century of Cricketers, by A.G. ‘Johnny’ Moyes. He had compiled the stories of one hundred famous cricketers, ending in about 1950. Moyes was an accomplished analyst. It was a different era and a vastly different medium, but he was something of a Richie Benaud of radio.

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