PoliticsFederalCanberra ObservedOpinionHoward vindicated on border control. But migration is testing all sides nowIt’s been 25 years since the MV Tampa upended Australian politics. The former PM says he was right then, and he’s right now.Phillip CooreyPolitical editorThis week, 25 years ago, the Howard government was in a spot of bother.An election was due within three months and, despite its unexpected success at the July 14 Aston byelection just six weeks earlier, the Coalition was still badly lagging Kim Beazley’s Labor in Newspoll.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Latest In FederalFetching latest articlesMost Viewed In Politics