Sorry to inject some Australian politics but this post will save me a bit of typing:
This 30th anniversary stuff is a joke, an embarrassment and a shame to the history of this nation.
John Howard has diminished not only Australia's reputation as a regular, decent, world citizen, he has also dramatically reduced the range within which we as a nation can imagine ourselves.
Howard is the PM who has succeeded more than any other PM in making us all citizens living within a smaller, narrower, more limited nation.