Peter Costello’s contribution to the Fairfax dailies this week is a plea to the Rudd Government to focus their attention on the coalition’s preferred topics when it comes to tax reform. Let’s start with income tax The Coalition cut company tax to 30 per cent. The states still have not abolished all the taxes they [...]

You could accuse Gerard Henderson of many things – for instance, of being Australia’s most engaging and scintillating public speaker, or of providing the most even-handed and non-partisan analysis of the Howard legacy – but you can’t accuse him of shying away from irony or hypocrisy. In the latest edition of his Media Watch Dog report (proudly [...]

The Member for Higgins has an op-ed in today’s Fairfax papers. Ostensibly, it’s about Sol Trujillo’s critical treatment in Australia being based on performance and not race. Realistically, it’s about Peter Costello rebuilding his profile as a commentator on economic matters, perhaps in preparation for some job he might (finally!) try to assume (watch your [...]