“This is a practical plan of action to do something practical for working families.” Spare us. That was housing affordability. This is pension rates: “You had 12 years and you did nothing.” Compelling. Nelson is getting redfaced. Turnbull chortles, Tuscan tanned. The member for Higgins is absent. “He has leave today to attend a funeral,” [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Costello extracts reveal all
September 13, 2008 – 7:37 pm
So we’ve read them now. I guess we can safely assume that like the trailer for, lets say, Semi-Pro, the teasers to the Costello Memoir (really, who thought to call it a memoir … who does he think he is, Richard Attenborough?) have probably exhausted the best material. Which is not to say that there [...]
And I always hated Warren Zevon
September 12, 2008 – 4:29 pm
But I love this. We did this thing this week where we asked people to tell us what they would do with their last five hours, just in case the Hadron Collider did in fact bring about instant oblivion. There was a really strange sense that came from what people wrote. I don’t want to take it all too seriously, but there was an amused serenity about the last things they wanted to do.
Costello, press, deals and politics
September 12, 2008 – 1:20 pm
A fortnight ago senior journalists from the leading Fairfax newspapers, Michelle Grattan and Shaun Carney for The Age and Peter Hartcher from the Sydney Morning Herald, sat down as part of a contracted arrangement with Melbourne University Publishing to interview the former deputy leader of the Australian Liberal Party, Peter Costello. The interview was part [...]
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