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Sunday Night: John Howard interview

John Howard is apparently ready to spill to Janet Albrechtsen on Sunday Night.

2014-09-18_1354Sunday Night has a biggie this weekend with its exclusive interview with former PM John Howard.

The Australian columnist Janet Albrechtsen is guest reporter, having conducted four interviews with Howard over several weeks.

Bound to be one that creates Monday morning headlines.

For seven years he’s kept his silence. For seven years he’s kept his most personal views secret. Now John Winston Howard is unloading. He doesn’t have to hold back anymore. Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister in history has a lot to say and a lot to reveal. So much so, that he’s given unprecedented access to Sunday Night in a series of explosive interviews.

The 14-year-old bowser boy at his dad’s service station who grew up to be one of the nation’s greatest statesmen, doesn’t duck one question or evade giving an answer. This is the leader who went to Bali in the aftermath of the terrorist bombing, was in Washington, D.C. when the Twin Towers fell, and who took us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. He brought in gun control and the GST, steered the country to an economic boom….and was then voted out of office in a landslide election defeat that even cost him his seat in parliament.

While historians will pour over his every word, everyday Australians will be fascinated about his views on Costello, Gillard, Rudd, Bush, Thatcher and current Prime Minister Tony Abbott. He details the secret deals and political horse-trading not revealed previously. Howard also opens up like never before on his darkest days, when his father died and his wife Janette broke the news she had cervical cancer.

Love him or loathe him you have to watch this extraordinary TV event, if only to hear him say, “I made a mistake” and “I lost my nerve” at a crucial point in the country’s history.

John Howard now believes what he has to say, after those seven years of silence, will correct a number of falsehoods about him and the actions of the government’s he led. Even his firm views on cigarette smoking will surprise you. It’s a rare opportunity to watch history being made.

8pm Sunday on Seven.

14 Responses

  1. How like the “Howard Haters” to spill their bile and bad manners yet again.

    It’s almose as if the fiascos of Latham, Gillard, Rudd and Gillard (again!) never happened.

    It fascinates/amuses/appals me that the “true believers” are willing to forgive and forget the tragedies their chosen ones inflicted on all of us.

    On a lighter note, one has to wonder just what “historians will pour over his every word,” once they have had the time to pore over every word

  2. The Prime Minister who stupidly believed in Weapons of Mass Destruction.

    The Liberal Party has never been known for its interesting personalities, so why would you waste your time watching this. Didn’t Paul Keating call him a “Desiccated Coconut?”

  3. Really looking forward to this! The last of the great leaders of this country before “I’m Kevin and I’m here to help” then to watch he and his mob play musical chairs with the PM Job

    How anyone can say JH was not a leader are kidding themselves – gun reform, took the GST to an election, national security, among many others

  4. @Guy, speak for yourself …

    Howard has been in the press lately criticising Abbott (safe to do since he’s so unpopular) but he was cut from the same cloth.

    I don’t know why anyone would watch this when The Code starts on Sunday night. The rest of the media will regurgitate the interview “highlights” on Monday morning anyway.

  5. Most over rated pollie ever. He and Costello surfed an economic boom and never governed in tough economic times. Rudd, Gillard and Abbott have faced a much tougher political environment.

  6. In this very special episode adults only episode of Sunday Nighy, we watch the surgical process of Janet Albrechtsen having her lips surgically attached to the former prime minister’s posterior.

    Mr Howard will also discuss his time in office accompanied by the gentle, yet quivering moans of a sycophantic guest reporter.

    Discretion is advised for those who have moderate views and are offended by surgical procedures or audible whimpering.

  7. I put this on a par with the Sixty Minutes teaser for their Slipper interview which was “dynamite” and would reveal a “secret plot that will rock the Abbott Government”. I think not.

    Howard has been lying to the Australian people since 1974. He won’t be telling the truth anytime soon.

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