It was quite hilarious to hear John Winston Howard kick off the election campaign last Sunday week by saying that it was "all about trust". Days after more evidence was coming to light that he knew about the "Children Overboard" fraud before the 2001 election, he takes the bold, aggressive step of asking for us trust this time around.

JWH's press release on August 29, announcing the election, is comical for many reasons, but it is the third paragraph that has electioneering Sound Bite dripping all over it:

Who do you trust to keep the Australian economy strong and to protect family living standards? Who do you trust to keep interest rates low? Who do you trust to lead Australia in the fight against international terrorism? Who do you trust to keep the budget strong so we can afford to spend more on health and education?

And this brings us to the ABC's brilliant Media Watch. It's good to see that JWH was able to so many diverse, off-the-cuff interviews as the transcript of last Monday's Media Watch shows. That's at least six occasions documented by MW where Howard has repeated the same "Who do you trust" mantra.

But as the transcript shows, Mark Latham was little better. I hope it was appreciated by all those hard workers on 30, 40, 50 thousand a year...

On the subject of John Howard and trust, here are some links to sites all devoted in some way or another to the removal of JWH from power on October 9:

• Truth Overboard: the ALP's 2002 website about the findings of the Children Overboard inquiry;
• 35 Lies and Counting: Another ALP website documenting JWH mistruths;
• John Howard Lies.com: this has quickly become one of the most popular indie political websites in Australia;
• Not Happy, John!: the companion website to Margo Kingston's book;
• Just Not John.com: "We are not trying to tell you who to vote for, we are simply trying to bring to your attention all the reasons why it's important not to vote for John. ";
• Defeat Howard.com
• Dear John.org: one of the funkier anti-Howard sites around (includes a toilet door poster to print out and stick up);
• Troy Rollo: Independent candidate for Bennelong;
• Andrew Wilkie: Greens candidate for Bennelong;
• The Not Happy, John Campaign: run by former Liberal Party president John Valder;
• resist.com.au: Not explicitly anti-Howard, but an Australian anti-neocon website;
• The Bennelong Institute: "Bringing the big issues to the people of Bennelong";
• End The Lies.net: A series of rallies in each capital city on Sunday, October 3.
• Pants on Fire! Pathological Liars: from the World Peace Society. Who is the biggest liar out of Blair, Bush, Howard and Mugabe?
• Not In Our Name: An online register of Australians (more than 58,000 of us) who do not support this country's attack on Iraq.
• Charge John Howard: with crimes against humanity.
• Rock Against Howard it's a CD!
• Don't Trust Howard: complete with downloadable sticker
• Howard's End 04: "For matters of critical national importance, nothing says it like a fridge magnet."

I'll add more as they come to my attention.