- Born
- Birth nameJohn Winston Howard
- Nicknames
- Johnny
- Honest John
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- John Howard was born on July 26, 1939 in Earlwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He has been married to Janette Howard since April 4, 1971. They have three children.
- SpouseJanette Howard(April 4, 1971 - present) (3 children)
- ParentsLyall Falconer HowardMona Jane Kell
- Bushy eyebrows
- Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.
- At the 2007 Australian Federal election, he became only the second standing Prime Minister to lose his seat in Parliament. He was defeated by the Labor candidate, Maxine McKew.
- He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Australia.
- He was awarded the A.C. (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister and through contributions to economic and social policy reform, fostering and promoting Australia's interests internationally, and the development of significant philanthropic links between the business sector, arts and charitable organizations.
- Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, Australia
- You can't fatten the pig on market day.
- It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
- Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
- I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
- We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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