The Age (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Former federal treasurer Peter Costello has challenged predictions that Australia will go into recession, saying he is confident it won't and that "nobody around the world" thinks it will either.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... have asked almost as many questions of Wayne Swan in two months as he asked of (former) treasurer Peter Costello in two years," she said. "I have asked the treasurer 30 questions, I have yet to receive a sensible response to any of them." Share this article FOR THE GIRLS: Julie Bishop in Parliament yesterday. Picture: Gary RamageAlso in NewsFont size:Email article:Print article:Have...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... have asked almost as many questions of Wayne Swan in two months as he asked of (former) treasurer Peter Costello in two years," she said."I have asked the treasurer 30 questions, I have yet to receive a sensible response to any of them."
Blogocrats (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for the debacle. The children overboard spin tested the government ministers’ memories again. Peter Reith, the Defence Minster in 2001, must have old timer’s disease. The blatant political misuse of the military was obvious. The removal of captions on the photos of refugees in the water was disgraceful. This attempt to make them appear to be throwing children into the sea speaks for itself....
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ms Bishop, who has been plagued by accusations of plagiarism and a stumble in her first week in the role when she did not know the official cash rate, said she consulted a wide range of people inside and outside parliament, including former treasurer Peter Costello.She also hit back at Perth academic Peter van Onselen who pointedly raised questions about her ability in an article...
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
QUEENSLANDERS have backed the economic leadership of their home-grown federal Labor team over the previous Liberal leadership in a new poll. and found strong support in the poll, which asked whether voters would want the former Coalition team of and back.A Courier-Mail/ poll of Queensland voters found that less than two in five people said they wanted a return to the leadership of Howard-Costello,...
A Networked World (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
A couple of years ago Australia's Howard government had Treasurer Peter Costello out there "warning" that if demographic trends continued, Australia's population would halve by natural attrition by 2050 and the people should make a point of having three kids,...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | yesterday
... thus further fuel the story) could be done to Turnbull tomorrow. As if to lay down a few markers, Peter Van Onselen published an otherwise bizarre op/ed on Saturday praising Peter Costello as the best available leader. I’ve observed before that the opposition’s coziness with the press gallery does them no favours. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find a way of resolving problems...
Blogocrats (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... when survival counted. In John Winston Howard : the definitive biography by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, Peter Costello criticised Howard’s budgetary adventures in 2001 and 2004 as unsustainable. But they were effective. That was Howard cunning working overtime. In 2001 we saw Lucky John emerge. In August the Tampa arrived with its ship load of Muslim refugees. He...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
MOST Australians would be feeling more comfortable right now if Peter Costello were still running the economy.
The Tizona Group (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
I was looking through some old clips of Former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello, one of the funniest politicians ever, well, one of the funniest who actually intended to be funny. I mean, who can look at his imitation of Peter Garrett and not laugh at the lame dancing of Peter Garrett? Now, Peter Costello got [...]
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... scars from its early 1990s recession legacy under Paul Keating. The branding John Howard and Peter Costello gave Labor in the years post-1996 has stuck: that the ALP is the party of irresponsible deficit spending. The Howard years enshrined the virtue of the budget surplus. The public associates the budget surplus with sound management. Howard and Costello worked for 11 years...
