John Howard implements unpopular policies and makes them popular. That's leadership The Australian Prime Minister has announced that he is to stand for a fifth term. His former campaign director, Lynton Crosby, explains his extraordinary political longevity

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 6, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The former Australian Test cricket captain, Mark Taylor, once described Prime Minister John Howard as a "cricket tragic'' because of his obsession with every last detail of the sport. Howard acknowledged it as a fair description. I reckon it would be fair to describe him, in the same good-natured way, as a "politics tragic'' too. Howard lives and breathes his job. He believes politics is a noble profession and a worthy vocation. He practises his art every day, using it to try to make the nation and people's lives better.

An interviewer recently asked me about his success, expressing some ...

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