Howard slams current PM on immigration
November 09 2009 by Liam Clifford
Former Prime Minister John Howard spells out what he thinks of Kevin Rudd's time in office.
Former Prime Minister John Howard has openly criticised current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s handling of asylum seekers in a Sunday newspaper.
Howard was speaking to the Sunday Telegraph when he attacked Rudd’s current term in office. He claimed he is left ‘scratching his head’ as to what new policies Rudd has introduced, and talked openly of how the current PM had handled Australian immigration poorly.
Speaking about the current situation, Howard said,
"We stopped the boats coming. The facts speak for themselves. The Indonesian solution? Well, there doesn't seem to be one,
"The current handling of the 78 people aboard the Customs ship? I'll refrain from comment on that ... but speaking robustly in defence of our policy - we stopped the boats.”
Rudd has seen his approval rating nose-dive in the past weeks, following the deadlock with hundreds of Australia bound asylum seekers, which as of yet a solution has not been reached.
Howard moved on from Australian immigration policy and slammed the prime minister further, saying he had done little since he took office in 2007,
"I can't think of a major thing it has done, except spend the bank balance that Costello and I left behind. Nothing else,”
He continued “...even with the emissions trading system, what Mr Rudd is proposing is not all that different from what I took to the last election.”
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