AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CULTURE

Australian Political Culture

Australian Political Culture

Introduction

From 1996 to 2007 John Howard Australia ruled in four-year terms. Howard was born in 1939 in Sydney bourgeois relations. He was in front of his political career in a prestigious law firm lawyer. From 1974 he was a member of the central parliament and the following year was Minister for Industry and Consumer Affairs, then Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Secretary of the Treasury from 1977 to 1983 and then leader of the Liberal opposition. Australia's population in 2007 was mainly the feeling Howard had been in office too long, similar to Helmut Kohl anno 1998th Howard also failed of succession in his party to regulate clean. He did not go with the unloved by him as Finance Minister Peter Costello leading duo in the election campaign. Howard's slogan, "Just do not experiment" had no traction, he was also a sceptic on climate change. He played a major role in changing the political culture of the Australia.

Discussion

Background

After the massacre at Port Arthur in April 1996, John Howard led during his first term, a barrier to entry for semi-automatic firearms. His plans for the partial privatization of the Australian telephone company Telstra were the Senate rejected. Because of a conflict of interest with the rules laid down by him had five ministers are released early, he could only keep two more by the rules laid down by him a "clean government" again abolished (LOPEZ, 2000).

The uninterrupted flow of the vote on the independence of East Timor, for example by pro- Indonesian militias, in 2002 by Australian troops under UN protection missions UNTAET and UNMISET ensured. Even with the unrest in East Timor 2006 Howard sent Australian troops to re-establish peace and order. He also modernized the tax law and introduced a value-added tax, except on individual foods. International criticism, he earned during his second term, when he was with the help of the military Norwegian freighter MS Tampa refused entry into Australian waters, as this Afghan refugee survivors of a sunken ship had taken. Howard accused falsely of asylum seekers that they would throw their children overboard to force an illegal entry and sparked a diplomatic row with Norway and Singapore from. The refugees were later against payment by the Australian government to Nauru, where they were "trapped" in refugee camps operated by Australia. This so-called "Pacific Solution" was later to other camps on Manus extended.

Since the Bali bombing in 2002, notably the Australian citizens lost their lives, was one of Howard's strongest supporters of George W. Bush in his “war on terrorism ". In March 2003, John Howard justified the deployment of Australian troops and ships to support the U.S. and Britain in the invasion of Iraq by the need to Saddam Hussein be removed from power, since these weapons of mass destruction possessed. The Australian opinion on the Iraq war was clearly divided and Howard's popularity ratings fell significantly when no WMDs were found (SHARMAN, ...