Oh dear - so many that they won't all fit in.....
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Quote:John Howard Lie #12: Labor MP question to the Prime Minister: "Prime Minister, was the government contacted by the major Australian producer of ethanol or by any representative of his company or the Industry Association before its decision to impose fuel excise on ethanol?"
John Howard: "Speaking for myself, I did not personally have any discussions, from recollection, with any of them." - John Howard, Question Time, 17 September 2002
The Truth:: John Howard had met on 1 August the head of Manildra Group [Dick Honan], which makes 87 per cent of our ethanol, and they discussed how to help the Australian ethanol industry. - Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Official Record of Meeting, 1 August 2002
John Howard Lie #13: Interviewer: "Well, if the Budget's in such good shape why persist with things like the pension claw back . . ."
John Howard: "No, no . . . because Glenn there is no clawback. And what happened with those things is that they were paid in advance and we're not taking them back, we're just avoiding paying them twice . . ." - John Howard, interview with Glenn Milne, Sunday Sunrise, 4 March 2001
John Howard Lie #14: "There has been no clawback, there has been no deduction and there has been no deceit". - John Howard, Parliament, 5 March 2001
The Truth: "The indexation adjustments to pensions and adult allowance rates for 20 March 2001 will have the additional issue of clawback . . . Two per cent of the existing rate will be deducted from the normal CPI adjustment . . ." - Department of Family and Community Services, internal briefing paper, quoted in Parliament, 5 March 2001
John Howard Lie #15: "I can promise you that we will follow policies which will, over a period of time, bring down the foreign debt . . . our first priority in Government economically will be to tackle the current account deficit." - John Howard, Doorstop interview, Debt Truck Launch, 20 September 1995
The Truth: Foreign debt was $361 billion at the end of September 2003, an increase of 90 per cent on the September 1995 level. The current account deficit was $11.9 billion at the end of September 2003, an increase of 112.5 per cent on the September 1995 level. - Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS, Time Series Spreadsheets (Balance of Payments and Investment Position, Australia 5302.0, Reserve Bank of Australia (H) Bulletin, Current Account)
John Howard Lie #16: Well, we're certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding for labour market programs". John Howard, Address to Youth, Macgregor, 20 February 1996
The Truth: Kerry O'Brien: "Okay. But on 20 February, you said very clearly 'We are certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding for labour market programs'. Now, for all the people on those labour market programs, I would suggest it to them that would have been a pretty core promise and you've broken it."
John Howard: "Well, it is true that we are not spending as much money on labour market programs". - John Howard, interview on ABC 7:30 Report, 21 August 1996
John Howard Lie #17: "I don't want to see any further services, government service levels withdrawn from or taken away from the bush . . . I gave instructions for that this morning when I spoke to my office in Canberra, that in any future Government decisions that, in effect, a red light flashes if that Government decision involves a reduction in the delivery of an existing Commonwealth service." - John Howard, Nyngan Community Luncheon, 31 January 2000
The Truth: The Howard Government reduced the number of Job Network sites by 42 per cent, from 1710 to 986, and the number of outreach services by 65 per cent, from 404 to 140." Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Employment Services Contract 2003-2006, Aggregate Analysis, March 2003 - Job Network Conditional Offers, Aggregate Analysis, December 1999
John Howard Lie #18: "The Government's position remains that we were advised by Defence that children were thrown overboard, we made those allegations on the basis of that advice, and until I get Defence advice to the contrary I will maintain that position". - John Howard, Sunrise, Channel 7, 9 November 2001
The Truth: "I left him in no doubt that there was no evidence, that there were no children thrown overboard." - Mike Scrafton, ABC 7:30 Report, 16 August 2004
John Howard Lie #19: ". . . the behaviour of a number of these people, [on Siev 4] particularly those involving throwing their children overboard . . ." - John Howard, ABC Radio 3LO Melbourne, 9 October 2001
The Truth: "There is no indication that children were thrown overboard." - Defence Strategic Command chronology to Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, noon on 10 October (quoted in Investigation into advice provided to Ministers on 'SIEV 4', 21 January 2002)
John Howard Lie #20: "Nothing can alter the fact that I have in my possession an ONA report that states baldly . . . that children were thrown in the water." - John Howard, SBS Insight program, 8 November 2001
The Truth: ". . . fundamentally there was nothing to suggest that women and children had been thrown into the water." - Account of private conversation Acting Chief of the Defence Forces, Angus Houston, had with Peter Reith, Minister for Defence, on 7 November 2001, evidence given to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, 20 February 2002