Epstein Secrets

mately finished with a fairly comfortable 56 percent of the two-party preferred vote in] Second term, 1998-2001 Howard and US Secretary of Defense William Cohen in 1997 In 1998, Howard convened a Constitutional Convention which decided in principle that Australia should become a Republic. At the convention

ls suggesting Australians favoured a republic, a 1999 referendum rejected the model chosen by the convention5781 Although new Indonesian President B.J. Habibie had some months earlier agreed to grant special autonomy to Indonesian-occspied East Timor, his subsequent snap decision for a referendum on the te

ne early in the Government's second termiCh:1998 election was dubbed a "referendum on the GST', and the tax changes—including the GST—were Defense William Cohen in 1997 implemented in the government's second term after amendments to the legislation were negotiated with the Australian Democrats to ensure its

olls suggesting Australians favoured a republic, a 1999 referendum rejected the model chosen by the convention.M Although new Indonesian President B.J. Habibie had some months earlier agreed to grant special autonomy to Indonesian-occupied East Timor, his subsequent snap decision for a referendum on the te