Mephisto2

Just before the last election, when illegal immigration was a major hyped issue, there was a "people smuggler" ship intercepted off the coast of Australia. The government said that as the Navy ship pulled up, that the immigrants started throwing their own children overboard, so that they would have to be picked up and could therefore claim asylum (the original plan was to simply tow the boat back out of Australia waters).

Turns out that this was a major factor in the last days of the election, as it caused general public revulsion. Howard went on record as saying things like "I don't want this kind of people coming to Australia" blah blah blah. It was enough to win him a very close victory.

The thing is, he lied. No one threw their kids overboard. He not only lied about it, but he was advised by his own department, the military, the intelligence community, that what he was saying on record was not true. Yet he continued to spout it out at the media and resultingly, affected public opinion just that little bit enough, to get into power.

He's a liar.

I think he's a fundamentally good man (as I believe in most in politics), but he's arrogant and he's lied on some very important issues.

He said he would retire when he reached 64. He's 65 now and says he's changed his mind.

He said he would never ever introduce a GST. He did.

It goes on and on.


Mr Mephisto