Costello a contender? Wait till April
The Age (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
Peter Costello will be forced to declare his political intentions by early April.
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Costello a contender? We'll know in April
The Age (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
Peter Costello will be forced to declare his political intentions by early April - ending months of speculation about the former federal treasurer's future.
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If Turnbull fails, Costello is there
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
How the Liberals may yet win: - Expect Peter Costello soon to announce he’ll contest the next election in Higgins. -…
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No recession, says Costello
The Age (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
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.
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Myth Busting: Australia’s Economic Superheroes.
Blogocrats (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Recently whilst browsing through a local bookshop I came across a title that caught my attention, probably because it had a cartoon of Peter Costello dressed in a tight fitting super-hero costume. Its title was also very catchy Ozonomics: Inside the Myth of Australia’s Economic Superheroes. The Author Andrew Charlton is an economist and his thesis [...]
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Why Financially Educating Yourself Could Save Your Life
DS Articles (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... you have enough put away to feed yourself. The reality is that in 2007 the Australian Treasurer Peter Costello said that for the majority of Australians, superannuation wasn’t going to be enough to live on in their retirement. I’d suggest that’s indicative of a worldwide trend. The reality is that we need to get smart about finance, investing and money. We need to understand that...
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Deficits are difficult to erase
The Australian (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... grow is crucial to the prospect of a budget turnaround. As the Government has already discovered, Peter Costello's supposed one-off payments to pensioners year after year came to be seen as an annual entitlement. The difficult politics of reducing expenditure in 1978 are exquisitely laid bare in the papers and it is for Treasurer Wayne Swan to ponder how he might deal with the same...
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What is a cartel? Can't tell
News Blog (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
... and address other difficult issues, Howard's government set up a working party. Then treasurer Peter Costello sat on its report and released only a press release. Fisse took the commonsense view that, to address the complex issues, he'd like to see the whole document. When the similar Enterprise Act was passed in Britain, the discussion papers were publicly available. Fisse thought...
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Forum - Thursday, December 11
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Where is Peter Costello? I think that the Liberals are being idiotic in not making him defend his economic record. He would be devastating in the opposition leaders chair pointing out the errors Kevin Rudd is making. But they just let him languish on the back benches doing nothing. I really believe that he would have made a great Prime minister if he hadnt have been dudded and if he was...
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Luhrmann's film hoist on own grand ambition
The Age (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
As a historical piece, Baz Lurhmann's Australia makes a good romance, writes Peter Costello.
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Money needed after Xmas
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
FIRST we had then-treasurer Peter Costello give the more traditional "go forth and multiply" instruction.
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ANZ to slash 800 jobs
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
... process of just picking people off for brief meetings to learn their fate," Mr Masson said. Tanya Costello, wife of former federal treasurer Peter Costello, was spared from the cull. Mrs Costello is a lawyer in the trustee department. Last month, ANZ announced it would reduce staff numbers to facilitate the restructuring of departments and to cope with the global financial...
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Nationals should leave Coalition - Stone
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... the government which was described as dysfunctional, mean and tricky, laying much of the blame at Peter Costello's feet.
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Nats leave Coalition: Stone
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... the government which was described as dysfunctional, mean and tricky, laying much of the blame at Peter Costello's feet.
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C-section delivery for one in three
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
More than 282,160 babies were born in 2006, an increase of 3.6 per cent on the 2005 birth rate, and confirmation that the baby bonus, introduced by the then treasurer Peter Costello in 2004, has boosted the population by more than 30,000 in three years. However, more than one in three babies are now born by caesarean and more than half of Aboriginal mothers are smoking during pregnancy....
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