Associate Department of Government and International Relations University of Sydney Visiting Professorial Fellow Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security University of Wollongong
Born Robert Falconer Howard, he is the third son of Mona, née Kell, and Lyall Howard. His parents were married in 1925 and his eldest brother, Stanley, was born in 1926 (died 2014), followed by Walter in 1929 and John (former Prime Minister of Australia) in 1939. He was raised in the Sydney suburb of Earlwood, in a Methodist family.[5] Howard's father was a sympathiser with the New Guard.[6] and his mother had been an office worker until her marriage. His father and his paternal grandfather, Walter Howard, were both veterans of the First AIFinWorld War I and in peacetime ran two Dulwich Hill petrol stations.[7] Howard is the only member of his family to vote for the Australian Labor Party.[8]
Howard is currently an associate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong.[4]
^Wainwright, Robert; Tony Stephens (18 September 2004). "Canterbury tales". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 May 2013. Bob Howard, who teaches international security to postgraduates at Sydney University, is the only member of the Howard family to vote Labor and no longer talks publicly about his younger brother.
