Original upload date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:33:22 GMT
Australian television advertisement promoting the election of the Australian Labor Party for the 1996 Australian federal election- this particular ad, presented by the late Australian actor Bill Hunte
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r, attacked then Liberal Opposition Leader John Howard on his voting record on wage increases. This advertisement was broadcast in Australia in the lead up to the 1996 Australian Federal Election, which took place on March 2, 1996.
From a VHS recording, February 1996.
Vaxfacts: Then Opposition Leader John Howard won the 1996 federal election for the Liberal/National Coalition Parties in a landslide by defeating then Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating with a swing of 5.07% and a gain of 29 seats. With this, the Coalition returned to Government for the first time since March 1983. Considered a perennial runner-up who would never become Prime Minister (having already lost the 1987 election), Howard would go on to become Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister (behind his idol, Liberal Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies), serving for 11 and a half years until his electoral defeat in November 2007.
