Costello Quits!!

Tragedy for Australia, only insofar as there is now no chance at all of the country being run by Abbott and Costello...would have attracted great foreign press.

I still miss Keating, we wasted him to have that little fellow just gone come and reap the rewards of Keating's real economic and social re-structuring. Not really hateable though, not in the way Malcolm and his oleagenous crew were, although he was probably getting there with Workchoices makt frie.

At least Rudd seems very smart - even if, sadly, I felt bored after hearing just one half of one speech, and with him apparently in full voice, too with victory and all.

Kind of consoled with his previous mistake about the tax rate. Don't see why every PM should be an economist or treasury wannabe. Sick of dry little economists of all persuasions having the last word.

Imagine leaders given to stirring speeches like Churchill or Kennedy giving a tinker's cuss about every pissy little economic statistic.

There's still a few things need doing in the country and the world generally -and they will be apt to cost a few quid.

Not that I'm his number one fan, but I feel sorry for Peter C - would have been interesting to see how he faired as PM... remember his brother is a man of the cloth and chair or something of world vision - so there's a bit more to Peter I think than just 'australia's longest serving treasurer'

i think it could be safely said pete was fairly knifed by a bitter and increasingly self-absorbed PM (what was his beef with costello anyway - maybe its because pete had such a silver spoon ride into politics - never on the backbench - that johnny i've-had-to-struggled-out-from-the-sodden trenches couldn't handle giving pete the ultimate prize

by the way do you think that the battle for bennelong will become compulsory reading in school's history cuuricula?

now on turnbull.. lets not get carried away by the result in his electorate - in 2001 king won it on primary's, turnbull stuggled in 2004 because king ran against him after being booted out... if i'd been alert to this i think i could have made some money on the TAB - what were the odds for turnbull winning??