ID | 115067 |
Title Proper | Adrift down under |
Other Title Information | the Labor Party abandons economic reform |
Language | ENG |
Author | Kissel, Mary |
Publication | 2012. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | John Winston Howard wasn't just voted out of office after a remarkably steady eleven-and-a-half-year stretch atop Australian politics in November 2007. He lost the prime minister's job to Kevin Rudd, a cheerless career bureaucrat with a skimpy parliamentary record, and lost his local seat to a toothy blond broadcaster with no political experience at all. Yet today the young and the old mob Howard when he wanders out in Sydney, wanting an autograph and a snap with the seventy-two-year-old. They realize that Australia's current leaders have veered the country away from the steady, prosperous path it was on for the past three decades, and in addition to feeling nostalgia for better days they want someone to steer their country back on track. |
`In' analytical Note | World Affairs US Vol. 174, No.6; Mar-Apr 2012: p.37-42 |
Journal Source | World Affairs US Vol. 174, No.6; Mar-Apr 2012: p.37-42 |
Key Words | Labor Party ; Economic Reform ; Australian Politics ; Kevin Rudd ; Australia ; Liberal Democracy |