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02/08/2006 Howard calls for more babies
John Howard with the Gold Coast Titans jumper presented to him yesterday. Picture: AAP IMAGE
NOW Prime Minister John Howard wants Australians to go forth and multiply.
?We need more Australian children,? Mr Howard said in a speech at a school on the Gold Coast yesterday, echoing a call made by his Treasurer Peter Costello recently.
The Prime Minister said he was encouraged by statistics showing Australia was reversing the trend of declining fertility rates in the Western world.
The natural fertility rate ? or effectively the number of children a woman has during her lifetime ? has increased in the past year to 1.8 after falling from 3.55 to 1.73 since the 1960s.
Australia has been one of the few developed countries in the world to record an increase.
Other nations, particularly Japan and Russia, are facing huge falls in natural population in coming decades.
In his speech, Mr Howard also said the spiralling cost of petrol was ?burning a hole in everyone?s pocket?.
?But it?s burning a bigger hole in the pocket of people in Europe and North America,? he said.
Jaiden May, the grandson of local federal MP Margaret May, presented Mr Howard with a Gold Coast Titans jersey for his support of the franchise during its successful campaign to be named as the National Rugby League?s 16th team next year.
Titans chairman Paul Broughton said: ?We were going to put his age on the back but we didn?t think that was appropriate.?
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John Howard recieves Gold Coast Jersey
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LOL at Broughton... yep 67 is a real good idea, glad we didn't go forth with it... would have been funny though...
As for Howard, I am sure he'll love it, but he like many on this forum is a Dragons fans till the day he dies....
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Thread moved to social forum.
Also here is the photo:
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Titan First Grade Regular
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Sign him and i hope he gets rubbed out with a willy mason hit.cya.
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does anyone else find it weird he gave a speech telling us to have more babies... in a SCHOOL?
so much for sex ed lol.
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Oh dear...
Originally Posted by Steve Dangerous
How things have changed in just a few short years, I still remember the talks about Uni and Tafe, now it seems that we should be trying to increase the population
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Thank god he isn't 2 years older.
Thanx to Steelers for the handywork!!!
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Maybe he could be a no.1 season ticket holder???????????????
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pffft dont care what howard does .
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take it back! Originally Posted by Darren Lockyer
last thing we want is a dragons fan, let alone johnny!
lol.
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Hey whats wrong with being a Dragon fan?
Welcome to Where Time Stands Still.....
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only a dragons fan would need me to explain that to them.
lol.
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It would be a good advertising for the club
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