The Spencer Street End

The Spencer Street End

The Grammar of Comfort

Thirty years on, the mainstream John Howard defined continues to frame the nation’s limits.

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Daniel James
Feb 27, 2026
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John Howard in 1997 claimed Indigenous Australians could have "the potential right of veto over further development of 78 per cent of the land mass of Australia"

I have been thinking a great deal about John Howard recently, about his largely unwelcome return to the public gaze after the Bondi terror attack, about the fact that next week marks thirty year…

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