Costello - Next PM of Australia?

[dalek]

And wouldn't Abbott be a great Treasurer.

gg

Recently visited A.C.T. and sat in the gallery during question time.
Watched Abbott swaggering around like a gunslinger networking during the proceedings.
If body language is a true measure of personality... be afraid people !!

 

[trainspotter]

Well it could be possible to become the leader of the opposition after Malcolm Turnbulls recent gaffe with utegate.

Colin Barnett announced his retirement and the Libs in WA convinced him to have one last tilt on a snap election. Backfired big time for Carpenter.

Costello to becom PM? Hmmmm more motion of discovery on this one brothers.

 

[kincella]

this from Andrew Bolt's blog....

In fact, the Liberals face the absurd dilemma of having only two potential leaders with half a chance - one who's been thrown out of parliament and the other who says he's skedaddling, too.

The first is John Howard, of course, who lost not only the last election but his seat, yet remains an adult in a time when parliament seems stuffed with children.

Howard, incidentally, is no older than was Winston Churchill half way through his own first time as prime minister.

The other is Costello, who seems perfectly content with his decision to retire, yet strangely receptive to pleas to reconsider

and this about their speeches.....

Costello was in command. Gillard was merely auditioning.

Had more Liberals seen it than the three who were present - including Turnbull's chief tactician, Christopher Pyne - even more would have added their voices to the one Costello heard a few days later by the hill of Golgotha.

Peter, rise again. Your people await their Messiah

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25715391-5000117,00.html

 

[kincella]

So I have just found out the nominations for the seat of Higgins is open until July 30th...it was to have closed on June 30th

I have sent an email to Costello, to plead with him to return and save our country from this rotten mess. There is no one else capable of the challenge

Can I urge all lib supporters to do the same...simple...just send an email, and ask him to come back...please
www.petercostello.com.au
figure you could send an email to... peter@petercostello.com.au

 

[Timmy]

Is the closing time for nominations 5 pm (Australian Eastern time) on the 30th?

 

[prawn_86]

Who cares?? They're all politicians. Each as bad as the other

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

So I have just found out the nominations for the seat of Higgins is open until July 30th...it was to have closed on June 30th

I have sent an email to Costello, to plead with him to return and save our country from this rotten mess. There is no one else capable of the challenge

Can I urge all lib supporters to do the same...simple...just send an email, and ask him to come back...please
www.petercostello.com.au
figure you could send an email to... peter@petercostello.com.au

He is reconsidering.

gg

 

[Calliope]

I don't think so . He could end up like this;

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=31318&stc=1&d=1246261082

 

[Gundini]

Costello is tooo boring to be PM...

How excited can you get over recycled pollies?

Bring back Keating from the dead. At least he had polish!

 

[MrBurns]

peter@petercostello.com.au

Doesn't work.

 

[kincella]

it was just a guess...just go to his website and email from there...I got a reply within the hour...overwhelming support etc
here is the email...............

Thank you for visiting my website and for your email of 2 July 2009. It was very kind of you to write.


I do appreciate your kind words of support. The amount of support that I have been receiving has been quite overwhelming


It has been an honour and a privilege to serve in the Commonwealth Parliament and have the opportunity to make Australia a better country.


My best wishes,

Peter Costello


www.petercostello.com.au

 

[antzlovinit]

Only if bob Car was still around, he prob make a good prime minister! hope he comes back! what u guys think?

 

[kincella]

not Carr...another nsw labor man...
no we need someone who is experienced in the biggest job, and has a good track record...only Costello fits that bill....I did like Andrew Downer as foreign minister
ratings last week reported here was Costello with 43% against 22 and 15 for the others

 

[xyzedarteerf]

I don't think so . He could end up like this;

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=31318&stc=1&d=1246261082

LOL....

 

[Mc Gusto]

whatevers...he is gaawwwnnnn

 

[rhen]

Costello is tooo boring to be PM...

How excited can you get over recycled pollies?

Bring back Keating from the dead. At least he had polish!

I always wondered what criteria some people used to select managers of Australia...even in jest?
Possibly, as in driving a vehicle, we need to set a licence exam (would that set a cat amongst the pigeons!)
I believe it's time to show real concern.

Quote: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25651935-5000117,00.html

Terry McCrann

June 18, 2009 12:00am

PETER Costello is Australia's best treasurer. Plain and simple and quite frankly undeniable.

He's best not just among the - decidedly, mixed assorted - bunch that have variously minded, misused or just been plain incapable of handling the nation's purse-strings in the six decades since World War II.

But across the entire 108 years of federation so far and 35 treasurers in total.

A cohort, incidentally, that includes more than a dozen who were also or who went on to become, prime minister.

You could not ask for a more telling endorsement of this assessment, than that his successor Wayne Swan would deliver almost seamlessly the '13th Costello budget' in May last year.

 

[dbcok]

Terry McCrann forgot to add IMHO

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Costello will be Lazarus with a quintuple bypass.

gg

 

[MrBurns]

I think your sources are a bit dodgy gg, Costello isnt doing anything.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I think your sources are a bit dodgy gg, Costello isnt doing anything.

Tell that to Brutus

gg