Ebook: The Costello Memoirs
Author: Coleman Peter, Costello Peter
- Tags: Politicians
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
- City: Carlton
- Language: English
- epub
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.;Cover; Title; Preface; Contents; Author'S Note; 1 What Went Wrong?; 2 The Making of a Politician; 3 From Confectionery to Canberra; 4 Defeat from the Jaws of Victory; 5 Out of the Wilderness and into Government; 6 Balancing the Books: Setting Monetary Policy; 7 Unchain My Heart: A New Tax System; 8 Second Term Blues: 1998-2001; 9 Meltdown: The Asian Financial Crisis; 10 War and Terrorism: The Third Term; 11 From Mabo to Mal: Indigenous Australia; 12 Leadership: From Memo to Madness; 13 Bringing Home the Bacon: The Fourth Term; 14 Going Cactus: The 2007 Election; 15 Unfinished Business.
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