Amy Remeikis

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The Briefing · It’s all John Howard’s fault, says Amy Remeikis · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

There should be more people who are different to me in these spaces because we are the ones who live with the impacts of these policies.

And I think back to my childhood and how the fact the only reason I was educated was because of a public school system, that the only reason when my mother was ill that we were able to navigate a health system was because of public health, that I was only able to move out of home because of Centrelink, that I was only able to get to where I was because of a social safety net system.

that we've now spent the last 30 years eroding and pulling the ladder up behind us.

And I just think, well, no wonder where we are, because we have given everybody absolutely no hope that their lives can be better.

I have experienced class mobility.

I am now firmly middle class.

And that is only because of the public safety net that was there to catch me when I was a child.

You know, Amy Ramakis would not be here if it was not for government assistance.

And I just think that that is not something that anybody can ever really forget or not want for other people.

Yeah, John Howard screwed this nation and he certainly screwed millennials and Gen Z. He waged a war on the future in the 1990s and he had a whole generation of Australian voters voting against not just their own interests, but their children and grandchildren's interests.

And that generation still widely reveres him as, you know, this great political and economic manager when he

you look around and you just think, well, everything that you are complaining about, housing, you know, what's been happening in terms of the migration debate, Australia's links to the United States, inequality, like you name it, John Howard is, if not the seed of the changes that Australia has seen over the last three decades, he is the person who turbocharged all of it.

And so that's why I wrote it.

And I just think, like, for an entire couple of generations of Australians, John Howard left everybody behind.

And what we're experiencing, the rise of One Nation once again, housing costs, inequality, privatisation of public services, you know, even, like, the lack of tradies or, like, the lack of wage growth, the work insecurity all

All of that was Howard because he just saw Australia through this lens that he held very dear.

I mean, John Howard is somebody who had said that Medicare raped the poor.

And he said that because he was so against the fact that Australians should have to pay for other people's health care.

So he wasn't against people having health care.

He was against paying for other people's health care.

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