John Howard Children Overboard...remember this?

2001 Children Overboard Scandal. Remember what Australian political leaders John Howard, Philip Ruddock and Peter Reith said? It was far from the TRUTH!

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[murrangurk]

What worries and shames me is how quickly the Australian public forgot about this, and happily kept a clearly racist and inhumane govt in office.

I'll never, ever be able to take pride in my country as long as I remember those times.

[mcnesta80]

siciliaussieguy,

So your uncle was Peter Reith, was he? He blatantly misled the parliament and the public, knowing he was going to retire to his pension. He was the biggest villain of the lot, but he managed to escape censure by quitting. I would be deeply ashamed of the association if I was you. I certainly wouldn't use it as some sort of mark of authority on this issue. Read the Senate inquiry to discover the full extent of his culpability.

[Firefly0100]

@cunnamullafalla No, John Howard at least had the guts to take a GST to an election, unlike Gillard with the Carbon Tax. He and Costello brought our country to one of it's highest points. Inflation was down, we had a huge surplus, and life was good. Then the people decided for a 'change' and voted in Labor and now what do we have? A carbon Tax no one wants. Billions into dept. Illegal immigrents. Gillard is the biggest coward. Howard was one of the best.

[Shaboh1060]

This was a disgraceful event...Shame Howard shame

[cunnamullafalla]

John Howard was the greatest LIAR and COWARD this nation have ever seen. His lies divided our nation, and sent our sons and daughters to die in a war caked with more lies. Howard is a COWARD and so are his supporters. Do your duty as Australians and let everyone know Howards lies. Expose him as the liar and cheat his is. Erase him from history, thats what he deserves. He's NO Australia. Filthy liar.

[yourgasm]

@deathrider2006 Damn right ppl that think John Howard was racist is someone that has no idea about Australian politics. John Howard did the right thing by protecting our borders. Thank you John & Peter!

[coolaidOHYEH]

@colindominy mate that is just blatantly racist the term asylum seeker generally speaks for itself (people seeking asylum) our country in many aspects is a disgrace the treatment of the traditional owners of the land the fact that even after agreeing to the Geneva convention we still send people off to uninhabitable detention centres were they are treated so inhumanly that a lot of the occupants end up committing suicide. and when you say "queue jumper" please inform me what queue?

[coolaidOHYEH]

@deathrider2006 you just dont understand mate

[awde2]

Disgrace

[deathrider2006]

John Howard was not racist,nowhere near racist. A hardworking govt that protected our borders for many yrs, unlike the the current govt we have

[crocodile2006]

Under the Rudd/Gillard government, the People Smugglers will decide who comes to this country and circumstances in which they come!

[luneco100]

a lot of lazarus supporters jumped when work choices were introduced and an absolute fact that they jumped with joy to overthrow all the rights of working class people children overboard nah it should be employers AWA's ABCC CCI FLAT RATE NO PENALTIES all thrown away with the new IR laws that went overboard lazarus frogmouth should throw himself of a building without a parachute front page news lazarus IR death squashed