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John Howard was an outstanding Prime Minister under whose leadership the Australian economy grew to the point that it had a significant surplus. He brought the country out of the debt that the previous government had incurred. The surplus was, unfortunately, spent by the ensuing government.John Howard was a strong man who brought in the successful Australian gun control laws, following a massacre by a lone gunman at Port Arthur in Tasmania.

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1. Introduce the GST.

2. Take Australia to war in Iraq.

3. Introduce the WorkChoices industrial relations laws.

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The only thing I can think of was banning guns after the Port Arthur Massacre in the 1996 National Agreement on Firearms.

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