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Published 01-08-2009
ISBN 9780522857047
Pages 416
Subjects Biography: general Biography: historical, political and military
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The Costello Memoirs

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Published 01-08-2009
ISBN 9780522857047
Pages 416
Subjects Biography: general Biography: historical, political and military
Imprint MUP POD

The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.

In a political career spanning more than eighteen years, Peter Costello, Australia's longest serving Treasurer, steered the Government through some of its greatest economic and political challenges, paying off Government debt, introducing the GST and fighting five elections. The Costello Memoirs charts the victories and defeats in one man's very public life.

Peter Costello was Australia's longest serving Treasurer, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007.

Peter Coleman has been a member of the Federal Parliament (1981–87) and the New South Wales Parliament (1968–78). He is a writer/journalist and has been editor of The Bulletin and Quadrant. His many books include a study of the intellectuals in the Cold War, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle…