John Howard's Garter will boost the Republican cause in Australia

John Howard slunk off into the west on election night like a mongrel dog but is now reportedly planning a triumphant return courtesy of Queen Elizabeth.

He left as plain old Mr Howard - and now sees himself coming back to haunt the people of Australia as a Knight of Realm, Order of the Garter - Sir John Winston Howard.

Bloody hell!

To me, he will always be the recalcitrant, conservative Prime Minister of Australia who treated Aborigines with disdain, caused enormous hurt to hundreds of thousands of Australian families with his draconian industrial laws, who regarded the environment as his playtoy and who never embraced any major social change in his 33 years in Parliament.

On 23 April, he might arise as Sir John with the Order of the Garter in his hand but I am sure there will be many Aussie battlers who would like to see the Royal Garter placed securely around this political troglodyte's neck.

Queen Elizabeth must be a closet republican because if there is anything likely to trigger anti-monarchist sentiments in Australia, it is the image of a defeated, conservative politician receiving an undeserved, out-of-touch gong from Australia's Head of State - the Queen of England.


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Howard deserved the Royal Order of the Boot

John Howard had lost touch with reality.

He had lost touch with the people of Australia.

He had lost touch with providing a decent, fair go for all Australians.

Now, he has lost his own seat of Bennelong after 33 years.

This is one politician who well and truly deserved the Royal Order of the Boot!

2007 Election Prediction - A prediction the major parties wouldn't dare make!

Psephology - the prediction of election outcomes - is a very difficult science.

I have successfully predicted the outcomes of many elections over the years - with one or two "wobbly" predictions along the way as well!

That's something we all have to endure, because at the end of the day, all voters are psephologists as we routinely predict the outcome of every election which comes along!

For those who recall, I won the Inaugural Crikey/Glug Psephology Competition in predicting the outcome of the last Queensland State Election.

Thank you to Glug, the winner's 2 dozen bottles of wines have all been well drunk!With more polls due overnight for tomorrow's papers, predicting the outcome today - of tomorrow's election - is like guessing how many bites you might get if you put your hand into a bag of King Cobras.

My assessment is that any chance the Government had of pegging back Labor's lead evaporated with the anti-racist scandal perpetrated by the Liberal Party in New South Wales in the last 48 hours. It is also clear that the Liberal Party's advertising campaign of scaremongering has been a monumental flop.

And going to strip clubs in downtown New York is an obvious positive boost for aspiring Prime Ministers!

Labor will pick up a swag of seats in Queensland and New South Wales plus a good clutch in Victoria, 2 in Tasmania, at least 2 and possibly more in South Australia, 1 in the Northern Territory and probably 2 in Western Australia.

I don't detect any last-minute swing back to the Government on this occasion although anything is possible as undecided voters firm up their views.

Looking at the various polls in the past 7 days - with the exception of today's Galaxy Poll which seems to be at the outer limits of a 2% margin of error - and analysing all of Australia's 150 Federal seats on a seat-by seat basis as well as applying a modicum of political "intestinal feeling", my final prediction for the 2007 Australian Federal Election is:

Labor to win at least 24 seats.

John Howard has never told a lie !!!!!!!!

With a day to go to the most-important Australian election in decades, John Howard is now boasting that he has never told a lie in politics during the past 33 years!

Come to think of it, he's never told the truth either.

With statements like that John, it's not too hard to work out who'll be drinking toasts and who'll have a big, red nose come Saturday night.

Vicious cat out of IR bag!

Just when John Howard might have thought that the election wheel could be turning his way, the Government's attempts to block Channel 7's Freedom of Information request to access secret 2005 documents to extend Australia's draconian industrial relations laws have come to light.

Despite the Government's election 2007 promise (no doubt a non-core promise) of having no plans to tighten the controls over Australian workers even further, it seems that John Howard and Joe Hockey have had a secret plan all along - which they are now doing everything to stop getting into the public arena.

The people of Australia can no longer trust John Howard.

After Saturday, John Howard might consider becoming a used car salesman on Parramatta Road where his undoubted ability to gild the lily would see him rise to become the richest car salesman in the nation!

Howard stands firm as tsunami rolls in

At the moment, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard is like a defiant individual - standing on the beach while a tsunami rolls in.

As the tsunami gathers height and momentum, he stands with his few mates nakedly displaying all of his self-supposed power and might and unjustified confidence.

And then at the last minute, he turns and runs.

But it's too late.

John Howard - This is Your Life!

The Australian People's Tsunami is beginning to roll in.

Welcome to November 24, 2007!