True Holley I think before the election.
He is the one, in every way, he has the ego Rudd has and the brains.
He is no phantom.
I think before because of one thing, Labor needs a blood sacrifice, some one to lessen the fall.
He can do it.
Amused at the very thought this is the end let the love in Begin.
Right faction, my faction, the one unseating Rudd, backing Gillard.
Shortens faction, may well bring about, no! why hide? WILL BRING about Gillards fall.
Unless she can fool every one in to thinking she was just asleep for two years.
Abbott? only he is of true service to Labor.
So out of control so unrelated to good government he helps my team.
Pyne, gee true, is put up as his replacement?
We have had a big day ALP children lights out sleep tight, lets hope we dream of a fairy Godmother turning Gillard in to a frog, whops princess.

*but at the cost of now owning nil profit generating infrastructure of our own.*

Best you stick with music, Thinker 2, for anything to do with money
does not seem your strong point.
I remind you that Costello used money from asset sales to pay off
Govt debt which Labor had run up. Thank god he did. When those
scoundrels Telstra were a Govt monopoly, they used to charge me
9$ an hour for internet access, as they had the monopoly. Selling
them changed all that, to all our benefit.

As a matter of interest, Costello has gone on to do advisory work
for the World Bank, plus is a a director of the Future Fund's board
of guardians. Then he does corporate advisory work as a managing
partner in BKK Partners. To put it in your language, corporations
pay him to give them financial advise. So now he gets handsomely
paid for his opinions

Peter Costello working for BKK ?
Isn't that the outfit set up by former
Goldman Sachs & Co. How appropriate.
He couldabeenacontenda - for PM, now
he's probably more suited to his current job.

"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to relive it".
Obviously, the Pyramids, Stonehenge et.al. were not built during periods of high employment.
Equally, it's common sense for a farmer to NOT start building sheds and silos during the planting/harvesting seasons.
Clearly, the time for the gov. to put money away for infrastructure is during periods of high employment/productivity.
Sadly, the very limited vision of Howard/Costello gave us a 'future fund' which had no other purpose than to cover the costs of Public sector superannuation.
The 'Building Australia Fund' (and 2 others) weren't created until '07-'09, -just when we should have been dipping into the funds, instead putting into them.
Costello too little, Swan too late.
Costello has certainly proven to be an able administrator.
Perhaps he just recognised his limitations.
Personally I've always ascribed to the theory that anyone who actually wants these jobs, should immediately be declared ineligible.
Too much show, no enough go.

*now
he's probably more suited to his current job.*

You are probably quite correct there Lexi. Not
everyone has the skills to do what he does now,
but anyone really can become a politician, if
they are prepared to join the circus and do a bit
of public crawling at the right moment.

People get the politicians that they deserve. That
is exactly why some of the brightest and best would
never dream of becoming politicians.

Dear Yabby,

You're right about some of the best and the brightest
not wanting to be politicians. However, that did
not apply to the case we're discussing - Peter Costello.
He (and Mr Howard) were always there for the BET (Big End
of Town) so it's no surprise that after Costello's political
career ended that it's the BET who ends up supporting him.