Howard was re-elected for a 3-year term in October 2004.  He's just recently announced that he will stand again at the election we presume will be late next year.  He has been PM for ten and a half years, and there is little sign that his own party, the pathetic Labor Opposition, or the Australian electorate, are going to do anything to stop him.  I think he will make a serious attempt to become the longest-serving Australian PM, and that record is eighteen and a half years.  A depressing prospect.