Re your post which included; "... but it it ireffutable that compared to Rudd and Gillard he [JHW] stands well above them. ..." "... If it doesn't go to prove they are hopeless leaders, does the GFC explain backflips, waste and the boats?"
Once again you've done a good job of asserting your unsubstantiated opinion - saying what you think without providing any supportive data or documentation.
In contrast to your assertions, it was investigative researchers who studied 55 countries who declared John Howard Australia's most profligate PM. A call based on forward spending up to the windfall profits from the mining boom and thereby kicking the future budgeting can down the road once the boom burst in 2008.
The leader who encouraged people into a housing bubble and private debt beyond anything in our history. The one and the same who delivered welfare to the wealthy and committed us to two illegal and decade long wars. The forelock tugger who could not find it in himself to say "Sorry!" to Aborigines.
For his part, Tony Abbott has undertaken to return Australia to that profligate JWH regime: a world-beating nanny state and the slash and burn of investment in core productive public infrastructure such as the NBN, transport and public education to pay for it.
Well if Abbott becomes PM he may even replace Howard as our most profligate PM since there is NO vision, NO strategic plan, NO documentation detail and NO engagement with mainstream Australians about what he will actually do.
