The Costello Memoirs 9780522859393, 0522859399
The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Government.
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English Pages 416 pages Year 2009
Table of contents :
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. 16 Spin and Substance in a Time of InstabilityPostscript
Appendices
Index
Copyright.
