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18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

The Menzies Era; the years that shaped modern Australia John Howard

Harper Collins, pp.707, $59.99, ISBN: 9780732296124

Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, still quips that John Winston Howard is his nemesis. This does not prevent the ambassador telling perhaps the best story about Prime Minister Howard travelling in the United States. One of the American press contingent asked; ‘Tell us, Mr Howard, what is Australia like?’

The PM considered the question for a moment and then replied: ‘Well, we are a lot like California.

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