Despite several terrible decisions Prime Minister John Howard made that still hurt, especially contracting away all our natural resources for basically zero profit (unlike Norway and Qatar who are smart) so now Aussies pay double++ for our own natural gas than our export recipients like Japan and India (even after liquefaction and shipping)... the gun buyback program was the very best thing Howard achieved to make Australia fairly safe comparatively on a global scale.<p>We had a population of approximately 18 Million at the time, and 640,000 guns removed from general circulation.<p>Good onya Johnnie.