Howard is correct on history

Comments on John Howard “Rudd demeans himself over history”, 11/09/2009, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26055356-7583,00.html

Howard is now calm and objective about history and he is correct except for a small point that is his IR reforms were too big and went a bit too far.

I think the number of big reforms over the past nearly three decades done by both sides of political sides in government that Howard described have really been outstanding. Both deserve credits for them. Denying either side is attempting to rewrite the history.

While Howard was politically very firm, both in opposition and in government, he become fairly pragmatic during government.

Rudd is in danger of being more politically stubborn by using the financial and economic crises to push outdated earlier Labour ideologies of big government and big spending and skewing too much against efficiency in favour of over playing equity.

He has already been exposed as having gone too far to the left. Whether he will be permanently remembered as that will depend on what he will do from now on.

The jury is still out.