Exit Right

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Exit Right</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership in particular Howard's style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results.</span></h2><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In this definitive account Brett discusses how age became Howard's Achilles heel how he lost the youth vote how he lost Bennelong and how he waited too long to call the election. She looks at the government's core failings - the policy vacuum the blindness to climate change the disastrous misjudgment of WorkChoices - and shows how Howard and his team came more and more to insulate themselves from reality.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>With drama and insight Judith Brett traces the key moments when John Howard stared defeat in the face and explains why after the Keating-Howard years the ascendancy of Kevin Rudd marks a new phase in the nation's political life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>It is when a leader's grip on political power starts to slip when his threats and bribes miss their mark when he starts to make uncharacteristic mis- takes and when what had once been strengths reveal their limitations that we can see most clearly the inner workings of that leadership. This essay is about John Howard's leadership seen through the prism of its failings. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Judith Brett <em>Exit Right</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This issue contains correspondence relating to </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Reaction Time</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> by Ian Lowe from Guy Pearse Robert Merkel Michael Angwin Christine Milne Mark Diesendorf and Ian Lowe.</span></p>