CLARK TURNS INTO JOHN HOWARD
Remember the Tampa and the "babies overboard" election in Australia of 2004. Then Helen Clark helped rescue john Howard by New Zealand agreeing to take a large chunk of the Tampa refugees. But she may at the same time have learned a lesson from john Howard. He based hiw whole campaign on trust. His plan was to use "trust' to redefine the core issues of the campaign away from what was pre-occupying the media and the Opposition. And it worked.he had spent the year falling in the polls yet ultimately his experience prevailed over newcomer Mark Latham. Sound familiar?