Comments on: John Howard warns against ‘politics of discrimination’ in religious freedom debate

By: Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 01:49:16 +0000

Who would even think of, let alone decide to, send their children to any School run by any religious organisation – be it Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu etc> – or any if the sects connected to any of them?
There have been so many instances of Proven Claims of Pedophile attacks on Boys and Girls, so many Proven instances of Teachers, Priests, Bishops, Archbishops, Brothers, Nuns and Lay people employed by these corrupt organisations who have either participated in Child Sex Abuse or deliberately covered-up that abuse by their mates only the near-brain-dead would risk sending their children to one of their schools.

By: Ruxxy

Ruxxy — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:27:03 +0000

Sorry to see that even John Howard is again mis-defining the meaning of Conservative. Conservative in the British sense (who’s system we copied) means they strongly support among other things “the family unit in all its forms” and that is why Mr Cameron said in the UK Parliament when putting through SSM “I support this not in spite of being a Conservative but because I’m a Conservative”. Sadly here, some in the Liberal Party are anything but Liberal in their views and confuse real Conservatism with outright ignorance and bigotry. Abetz, Bernardi, Christiansen, Ruddock, Abbott, Feranti-Wells, Hastie, Corman and Cash will never fit the real Conservative definition – they are just ultra-right bigots.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:06:17 +0000

Howard is a dinosaur. He grew up in the forties and fifties. He opposed Asian immigration during the 80’s, he called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, he has no idea at all about the modern world and that’s just the way he likes it.

His culture wars during his Prime Ministership were the start of the reactionary US-style hard right trends we see among the hard edge of today’s Liberal Party. They were a move away from the decent Liberal politics of a Sir Robert Menzies, and which are exemplified in the modern conservative world by the likes of leaders like David Cameron in the UK or John Key in NZ. When Howard was an upcoming dry in the Libs there were many wets too. It’s said by the end of his term in office, all the wets had been drowned.

He’s easily ignored by anyone living in the 21st century.