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Savings Bonus
John Howard Lie #1
On a promised savings bonus:
“You get the $1,000 savings bonus if you are 60 years or over.”
“. . . in addition to the pension increases, there’s the saving bonus for everybody at sixty years or beyond of a thousand, an additional two thousand for self-funded retirees at pensioner age.”
John Howard, Prime […]
Public Service Jobs
John Howard Lie #1
“Our plans . . . will involve not replacing . . . up to 2,500 positions over the first term of a Coalition Government-a process of natural attrition with no forced redundances.”
Coalition Public Administration policy document Election Campaign February 1996
The Truth:
In the first term of the Howard Government, 32,400 jobs […]
Taxpayer Funded Political Advertising
John Howard Lie #1
“. . . we will ask the Auditor-General to draw up new guidelines on what is an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money in this area. There is clearly a massive difference between necessary Government information for the community and blatant Government electoral propaganda. Propaganda should be paid for by […]
The Iraq War and Weapons of Mass Destruction
John Howard Lie #1
“The Australian Government knows that Iraq still has chemical and biological weapons and that Iraq wants to develop nuclear weapons.”
John Howard, Speech to Parliament before the war in Iraq, 4 February 2003
The Truth:
“I stand by the fact that before we entered the war, we had […]
Children Overboard
John Howard Lie #1
“The Government’s position remains that we were advised by Defence that children were thrown overboard, we made those allegations on the basis of that advice, and until I get Defence advice to the contrary I will maintain that position”.
John Howard, Sunrise, Channel 7, 9 November 2001
The Truth:
“I left him in no […]
Services for the Bush
John Howard Lie #1
“I don’t want to see any further services, government service levels withdrawn from or taken away from the bush . . . I gave instructions for that this morning when I spoke to my office in Canberra, that in any future Government decisions that, in effect, a red light […]
Labour Market Programs
John Howard Lie #1
“Well, we’re certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding for labour market programs”.
John Howard, Address to Youth, Macgregor, 20 February 1996
The Truth:
Kerry O’Brien: “Okay. But on 20 February, you said very clearly ‘We are certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding for labour market programs’. Now, […]
The Current Account Deficit
John Howard Lie #1
“I can promise you that we will follow policies which will, over a period of time, bring down the foreign debt . . . our first priority in Government economically will be to tackle the current account deficit.”
John Howard, Doorstop interview, Debt Truck Launch, 20 September 1995
The Truth:
Foreign debt […]
Aged Care and the Pension Clawback
John Howard Lie #1
Interviewer: “Well, if the Budget’s in such good shape why persist with things like the pension claw back . . .”
John Howard: “No, no . . . because Glenn there is no clawback. And what happened with those things is that they were paid in advance and […]
Meetings with the Ethanol Industry
John Howard Lie #1
Labor MP question to the Prime Minister: “Prime Minister, was the government contacted by the major Australian producer of ethanol or by any representative of his company or the Industry Association before its decision to impose fuel excise on ethanol?”
John Howard: “Speaking for myself, I did not personally […]