Doorstops with Peter Costello are becoming more and more like conversations with the Cheshire Cat:
Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I’d ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no… Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think […]
It’s all about him:
FORMER prime minister John Howard believes he would have been seen as “a coward” if he had stepped down voluntarily for Peter Costello but would have quit had a delegation of senior ministers demanded him to.
Confirms the speculation at the time that Howard was more concerned with his legacy, and the way […]
It seems like there are a growing number of journos in the press gallery who are really cranky with Peter Costello. Christian Kerr expresses his contempt thus:
WHAT does Peter Costello believe in? Does he even believe in himself?
Costello has never bothered to assert himself with a personal policy agenda, and he has never bothered to […]
Wow, someone at the Tele mustn’t think Costello is a realistic chance to come back to the big stage judging by this headline:
Pea-hearted Pete tipped to squib top job
The weird thing is that the substance of Malcolm Farr’s article under the headline is much more balanced. Is this a case of a subbie having a […]
Sounds like John Hewson has been growing some claws in his old age:
“When I look back at Peter’s career, he’s never had the balls to challenge, or make a move, or actually move to get the job, in circumstances where he could have got it,” he said on Sky News.
“I’m not saying he can’t come […]
Oh for goodness sake! It genuinely is getting difficult to keep up with the various permutations of the Coalition’s Climate Change policy.
Earlier today, ‘Coalition sources’ were telling The Australian Online that the Climate Change Deniers had been victorious in the Shadow Cabinet and that Brendan Nelson has carried the day”, presumably meaning that Coalition policy […]
Well the word is that the Shadow Cabinet has endorsed a policy of outsourcing Australian Climate Change policy to China.
Sucks to be Malcolm Turnbull at the moment.
So how’s this going to play out beyond the alternative reality that is the Coalition Party room?
Public opinion seems to be broadly in favour of Australia acting now to […]
It looks like Andrew Bolt was right and that the Coalition Party Room is going to have it out over Climate Change policy. Kevin Andrews has gone public arguing for a head in the sand policy and claims he has support from:
“a strong body of opinion in the party room. If a move doesn’t come […]
I have been trying to decide whether I could credibly give the Costello Leadership buzz a kick along over the past two days but have come to the conclusion that it’s simply too much of a stretch.
As Possum (here) and Mark Bahnisch (here) very clearly set out, all this talk is six ways of stoopid. […]
Brendan Nelson floated the Coalition’s idea for an “Options Paper on Federation” at a doorstop today and got this question:
QUESTION:
But does this republic debate come into the platform?
DR NELSON:
We think it’s important as the Opposition and alterative government to prompt Australians to think seriously about the way in which we are governing our country and […]