Peter Costello
Peter Costello was Federal Treasurer from 1996 to 2007. He has written a best selling account of his time as Treasurer which is now published in paperback. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Tanya and three children.
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Parliament will be key to unearthing the facts in Securency case
Peter Costello In September 2002, together with the governor of Mexico's central bank, I launched the 20 peso note at Banco de Mexico in Mexico City.
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Paying for privilege of losing cash not so super for workers
Peter Costello One of the accounting tricks the government announced in the midyear review was to take over inactive superannuation accounts and treat them as government revenue.
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Super-sized rip-off for average workers
Peter Costello Fund managers get more out of the system than anyone else.
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Question time has become a horror movie right there on my TV
Peter Costello Above the chamber of the House of Representatives in Canberra, there is a special part of the gallery set aside for visiting schoolchildren.
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Standard of debate nothing to laugh about
Peter Costello Parliament is a spectacle - but a spectacle for all the wrong reasons.
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Awaiting a true account
Peter Costello No one informed me of any suspicion of wrongdoing by Reserve Bank companies during my time as treasurer.
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Almost here, the tax which will not speak its purpose
Peter Costello Many books claim to contain the best speeches of Australian history. What we need now is a book of the worst speeches in Australian history, with Kevin Rudd on the introduction of the GST, ''A day of...
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Labor's carbon tax is enough to leave you speechless
Peter Costello It is not reform, it won't boost growth - nor will it save the planet.
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In politics as in life, fruit doesn't fall far from the ministerial tree
Peter Costello Leave aside who told who what. The fact is the Prime Minister's office thought it was legitimate politics to organise an Aboriginal protest against her political rival.
Labor's Carr trick brings Australia within a whisker of US cabinet model
Peter Costello A big difference between Australian government and the US's is the way a cabinet is chosen. The US president can choose from an unlimited pool - a Wall Street executive to become treasurer; a retired...
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Carr appointment takes Senate manipulation to next level
Peter Costello Remember the old days when cabinets were chosen from Parliament?
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Sunshine House becomes lost in the sleazy shadows
Peter Costello A minority government protects conduct that should not be tolerated.
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Difficult to cast house of sin in a good light
Peter Costello 'T his will be a different Parliament'' Rob Oakeshott claimed when he announced he would swing behind Labor and make Julia Gillard Prime Minister, again, after the 2010 election.
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Bank kerfuffle has Canberra mired in its usual confusion
Peter Costello The baddest bank on the price-signalling block is government-owned.
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The best price signaller in the land
Peter Costello Now that both sides of politics have decided to crack down on the evil practice of price signalling we might as well ask who does it and why.
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The green label is just a clever marketing tool
Peter Costello Bob Brown’s push for more taxes is a far cry from carbon reduction.
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MPs awaken to the power of one
Peter Costello The country independents - Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor - are not accidental tourists who have wandered on to the political stage.
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Futuristic budget is devoid of reality
Peter Costello It was a strange budget speech. It was all about the financial year of 2012-13 - three years away. That year is a happy year when the budget will balance for the first time in five years, and the...
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Exit Turnbull from a political stage littered with underachievers
Peter Costello Malcolm Turnbull made the right call when he decided to retire. All through the election campaign he would have been pestered about Labor's emissions trading scheme.
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The greatest moral conundrum of our time … until the next one
Peter Costello Last year, we were told, the most important issue for the country - for the planet - was greenhouse gas emissions. This meant the Senate had to pass the government's carbon pollution reduction scheme.
