Darth Vader wrote:Keating was a recognised failure, Hawke was an unfaithful shallow short man with an insufferable arrogance that even surpassed Howards later years. Whitlam was just out of his league although I voted for him. Rudd the dud no argument. Gillard is a screetching witch and an embarrasment to all of us except those who love Bob Brown and his map of Tasmania.
We are doomed.
This is about who is the worst PM, so I'll try to stick to facts as opposed to just our partisan opinions. Worst PM would indicate a PM who either achieved nothing, or was bad for the country, or was widely regarded as being not up to the job.
I would contend that several PM's fit some of those categories, but not all. Malcolm Fraser was regarded as a failure by many Liberal MP's. I think John Howard was a proven liar and introduced fear of other cultures as a political tactic. Paul Keating was arrogant, Kevin Rudd didn't follow through on important issues and Gough Whitlam led in difficult times and couldn't control his troops.
Each of these, however, regardless of one's bias, achieved different things. I'm not sure what Fraser achieved, but he wasn’t the worst PM ever. Whitlam stopped conscription, recognized China and led an exciting transformation of the country after 23 years of Liberal government. Howard had his GST and Liberal supporters can say what else. Keating and Hawke transformed our economy, which even John Howard recognized as a great achievement and Kevin Rudd, in his short time, gave one of the greatest speeches in the history of Australia and made a giant step forward with his apology to the stolen generations, as well as getting Australia through the GFC better than any country in the world.
Julia Gillard has been PM for less than a year. She has already achieved some health reform, has started, at last, to tackle climate change, whether you agree or not and leads a government that has consistently achieved low interest rates, low unemployment, low inflation and good growth. They are facts, not opinion.
To just wipe every Labor or Liberal PM because you don’t like them is fine, but it doesn’t prove anything except our bias. My bias is that Howard was a poor PM, but that won’t be accepted as correct.
To those who didn’t know Billy McMahon as PM, I can assure you, as many on here have said, that he did nothing, stuffed up what he tried to do, wasn’t up to the job, was bad for the country and even most Liberal MP’s sighed with relief, along with most of the country when he was comfortably rolled at the election.