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On Sunday October 3 join hundreds of thousands of other Australians in seeking to end the lies. Find out where your nearest rally is here.


We've created our first internet movie and PowerPoint Show featuring international rock band Fleetwood Mac and John Howard's lies. Watch it by clicking here.

Watch our latest PowerPoint Show featuring John Howard, George Bush,Peter Costello, Alexander Downer, Tony Abbott, Phillip Ruddock and special guests 80's rock band
Noiseworks

Visit the Cartoon Gallery

Check out Rock Against Howard. A compilation of musicians who are downright sick of the Howard Government



Check out the Not Happy John Website




Andrew Pegler's book of quotes and cartoons ponders the questions 'What does it mean to tell the truth?' and 'How far can you get the truth to bend'.

 

"Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life"

John Howard 25 August 1995

          

 

Another John Howard lie

"The most important thing that any government can do is to build a sense of trust, a sense of integrity, a sense of honesty and a sense of commitment to the Australian people. That trust has disintegrated over the last 13 years. The Australian people have been misled too often to believe that the last two or three times was an accident. The Australian people have been told things only to be disappointed after an election ... I want to change that. I want to change it because I think it is important to the future of our country that we rebuild a sense of trust and confidence in words given and commitments made by our political leaders."

John Howard 1996 Election Policy Speech

 

Thousands rally to End the Lies

Thousands of Australians rallied around the country to End the Lies. Read the reports here and here.

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Abbott lies too

Appearing on the ABC's Lateline program Tony Abbott tried to lie about his secret meeting with Cardinal Pell until presenter Tony Jones exposed the meeting. Read the transcript here and news reports here.

 

John Howard not honest: Latham

Labor Leader Mark Latham tells it like it is when he says John Howard is not honest. Read the report here.

 

Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald

 

John Howard continues to lie about interest rates

John Howard is struggling to get support for his interest rate scare campaign from those who know the most about them. The Prime Minister, John Howard, was asked yesterday to name one independent economist who supported his claim that rates would rise under a Labor government. "I don't need to invoke names," he said.

That's because there are none. Read the report here.

Peter Costello lies too

AN attempt by Peter Costello to blow a $700million hole in Labor's tax policy misfired yesterday after he wrongly accused the Opposition of botching the timing of a benefit for low-income earners. Read The Australian's report here. Peter Costello's reputation is left in tatters over his lies. Read the Sydney Morning Herald report here.

 

Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald

 

Aussies in UK urged to vote

Thousands of Australians in Britain could be the key to the general election on October 9. Australian expatriates in Britain will cast votes - in person or by post - at the Australian High Commission in London's Strand, which has the largest electorate of any polling station in the election. Read details here.

Iraq War not just based on a lie, but was illegal: UN Chief

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. He said the decision to take action in Iraq should have been made by the Security Council, not unilateraly. Read the full report here.

 

John Howard lies about $600 Family Payment

LEAKED Cabinet document showed Prime Minister John Howard was originally against the $600 child payment. Read the initial report here.

John Howard is now an environmentalist or is it just another lie?

Australia's cartoonists saw through John Howard's lies in his latest attempts to convince us he is interested in protecting the environment. Check out their take on the latest Johh Howard lies below.

 

Courtesy The Australian

 

 

             
Courtesy www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au

 


Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald

Pinocchio TV Commercial (1.6 MB)

Download the Pinocchio TV commercial sent to us by Tim Serisier who will be running the advertisement in the Northern Rivers of NSW. The commerical is available in Real Media Format here or in Window Media Player format here.

 

 

 

 

Songs

Download Paul Heinrich's songs about John Howard. Click on each link to download the songs.

It Wasn't Me (4.6 MB)

Little Johnny I Hardly Knew You (3.6 MB)

Shame Howard Shame (6.4 MB)

 


Courtesy of The Courier-Mail

 

SMS bomb threat spin spells deja vu

Poor Mick Keelty. Twice now, the federal police commissioner - through no real fault of his own - has become the victim of the Government's utter determination to pretend terrorists aren't targeting us because of our involvement in Iraq. Read Mike Seccombe's report here.

 


Courtesy of The Courier-Mail

 

Latham wins debate and puts truth in government on the agenda

Labor leader Mark Latham secured a much-needed boost in his election campaign last night, winning a televised leaders' debate dominated by global terrorism, health, tax relief, economic management and leadership. Mark Latham focused on the issue of truth in Government, saying that John Howard lied to the public about our reasons for going to war in Iraq and over the "Children Overboard" issue. Mr Latham also raised the issue of Mr Howard's failure to make a solid commitment to remaining in Parliament for the next 3 years. Read The Age report here.

 


Picture:Courtesy Channel Nine

Howard tries another "kids overboard" on Jakarta?

Checks by Australian Federal Police have been unable to substantiate John Howard's claim that someone called 45 minutes before the bomb went off and the Indonesian police cannot find any record of such a call.

AFP commissioner Mick Keelty started to back away from the claims on the weekend and the Prime Minister was left with the appearance of making unsubstantiated claims. Was this a looming children overboard saga? Yesterday, in the dry and deliberate words of his press office statement, Howard was said to be just passing on information to the public in the interests of transparency. Read The Australian's report here and The Sydney Morning Herald's report here.

Courtesy The Sydney Morning Herald

 

Finally the truth about the War on Iraq making Australia a terrorist target?

Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson said it was impossible to deny Australia's involvement in the US-led coalition of the willing had made it a target for radical Islamic terrorist groups.

Mr Anderson acknowledged Australia was at higher risk from terrorists. He agreed with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who last week said America's involvement in the war against Iraq had made it a target for terrorists.

"Well, it may be that, you know, those of us who have been particularly prepared to stand up will be identified, whether it's for propaganda purposes or whether it's reality, that might be the case," Mr Anderson said. "You can't deny that it could be." Read the full Sunday interview here and The Australian's coverage here.

Why we are a bigger target

Richard Woolcott, a former Australian ambassador and secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, says by deciding to join the invasion of Iraq, John Howard raised our profile in the eyes of terrorists. Read his views here.

Time to Get Active as polls show Lying Howard Government will be returned

The Coalition has won the first week of the election campaign, drawing to level pegging with Labor. The first-week fear campaign on interest rates has lifted the Howard Government's primary vote above the ALP. The Prime Minister holds a big lead over the Opposition Leader as the preferred prime minister. Read The Australian's report here.

 

More importantly, do something to stop the lies by clicking here.

 


Courtesy The Australian

 

 

Little Lies

International rock band Fleetwood Mac perhaps said it best: "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies". Download our first internet movie or PowerPoint Show featuring Fleetwood Mac and John Howard's lies here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Saturday, 9 October 2004
Election day

"We absolutely guarantee the retention of Medicare. We guarantee the retention of bulk billing."

John Howard, 1995

The rate of bulk billing by GPs has declined by more than 12% since the election of the Howard Government.

In April 2003, a confidential Government directive was issued which instructed public servants in the Department of Health that Government documents should, in future, no longer contain any reference to the words “bulk billing”.

The directive, marked “IN CONFIDENCE” and distributed by email among senior officers of the Department of Health, stated:

“We have moved away from discussion of bulk billing.”

“Words not to be included in the lexicon include… bulk billing.”

"I owe the Australian people the obligation to be truthful."

"My Government will always seek to be truthful and open with the Australian public."

"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."

"The simple principle .... here boils down to whether the man holding the supreme office in this country tells the truth to this Parliament or not."

"I do have some considerable regard for this place and I do have some considerable regard for probity in public life. A lie, Mr Speaker, in my understanding, is when you tell a deliberate untruth. It involves telling a deliberate untruth. In other words, knowing that what you are saying is wrong, you nonetheless go ahead and say it."


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