Peter Costello
Peter Costello
Peter Howard Costello, AC, is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian Howard Government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australia's history. Costello was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing the Division of Higgins. He also served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 August 1957
individual tradition western
part of the Western tradition of individual rights. If you dont like those values, then dont come here.
cut tax
He got a tax cut of $100,000 and you only got $1.
decision mine
But in the end the decision was mine and I made it.
consistent costs economy increases low provided restrained wage
These wage costs show that there are real wage increases going on in the community, but they are restrained and consistent with low inflation, provided the economy maintains productivity growth,
man year
In the Year 2525, if man is still alive...
allow bad clubs example legal might pills sends taking understand wrong
I can't understand how clubs would allow it. They might say, 'well it's a legal drug and there is nothing wrong with taking it,' but it sends a bad example when you (take) pills like that.
agreed approving offer position presented
The FIRB could not come to an agreed position and presented two alternatives, ... with one alternative prohibiting the offer and the other approving it but with conditions.
lying years magazines
You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.
lying moving funeral
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!
strong australia becoming
Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.
jobs cutting order
You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.
thinking australia people
I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.
australia people reform
The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.
country independent law
This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs