Amy Remeikis
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741 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
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But in doing so, a surplus is just money that a government isn't spending on people.
So he was undercutting public services.
He was giving massive tax breaks to people who didn't need it.
He wasn't putting anything aside in terms of investment for future generations.
And he changed the liberal view about how to use a budget.
It had always been about responsible economic management.
But if you go back to Menzies, Menzies was, you know, arguing that they would spend more money than Labor because it meant more public housing, more public services.
John Howard was like, no, no, no, no, that you should only ever have a surplus.
That surplus came from the mining boom, not because of anything that he did, but we've been left with nothing.
But everyone thinks because he had so much money flowing into Treasury that he was a great economic manager.
And he wasn't.
And it just drives me insane when I look around and I'm like, oh, the school system being, you know, shit.
That's because of changes John Howard made.
Oh, everyone's complaining about migration.
That's because of how John Howard changed the conversation about migration while increasing temporary migration to Australia to levels that Paul Keating would never have dreamed of doing himself.
Oh, Australia is now giving $300 billion to the US in a, you know, a strategic relationship that benefits the US and not Australia.
Oh, that's because John Howard completely put all of our eggs into what we're doing in the US.
Oh, we have a fractured relationship with the Asia Pacific.
Oh, that's because John Howard firmly placed us in the Anglosphere.
Like, it's just, it drives me insane that he is revered for
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