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...With gloomy polls haunting him for months, if John Howard can pull off his fifth consecutive election win he will become a Liberal legend. And if Nov. 24 turns out to be Howard's night, here are a few of the ministers he'll have to thank...
...Peter Costello "What counts is where you were when the work was being done." Experience: Treasurer since 1996 Prime Minister John Howard's anointed successor has shown he can wait for the top job - but for how much longer? Praised for piling up budget surpluses and introducing a Goods and Services Tax, Costello is set to be Coalition leader by the next election. Though a witty performer in Parliament, he often seems dour outside it, and is yet to test his popularity with voters as a potential national leader - or map out what kind of P.M. he would...
...Malcolm Turnbull "We need to have all of our energy being zero-emission." Experience: Environment and Water Minister since Jan. '07 Charismatic republican and investment banker on the political rise - if he retains his marginal Sydney seat. Said after the 1999 republic referendum that monarchist Howard had "broken this nation's heart." Has swiftly mastered a key portfolio but drawn criticism for approving a new pulp mill in Tasmania. Believed to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, in contrast to government position...
...Hockey "I'll put my personal integrity on the line on this." Experience: Employment and Workplace Relations Minister since 2007 The son of an Armenian immigrant, Hockey has been salesman for the contentious Work Choices legislation since rising to the portfolio this year. The jolliest of Howard's ministers, who once parodied himself publicly as the cartoon ogre Shrek, Hockey has promised to resign if Labor predictions of further changes to industrial relations laws under a Howard government prove correct...
...push Bratton out? It seemed so at the time, but by then Bratton had already done the heavy lifting of reform. More intriguing now is the fact that Giuliani chafed alongside Bratton, a certified policing genius, but bonded easily with Kerik. (Where Giuliani clearly erred was in naming Howard Safir to replace Bratton. Safir was an unqualified disaster...