The coup by Melbourne University Publishing [MUP] that it will publish former Treasurer Costello's memoirs leads one to question what the book will actually reveal, if anything.
Crikey has already weighed in with it's thoughts on the matter:
"Don't expect to see much of the Costello who begged off a fight for the leadership after Downer imploded, or who spent 11 years as Treasurer without a serious policy agenda, who let his Prime Minister turn a Coalition Government into the most appallingly profligate pack of porkbarrelers in Australian history, who didn't have the stomach to seriously pursue his leadership ambitions even after being repeatedly snubbed and insulted by Howard. Even after it was clear Howard was leading the party over the precipice."
And:
"It's typical of Costello, though, that even months after declaring he was pulling the pin, he still hovers at the edges of the political scene, unwilling to plunge in but seemingly unable to walk away. Can this bloke EVER make up his mind? If there's one great unknown that everyone would love to see in his memoirs, it's an explanation for his Hamlet-like indecisiveness, the apparent reluctance to commit, to sit back and wait.
But maybe he himself doesn't understand it."
Crikey has already weighed in with it's thoughts on the matter:
"Don't expect to see much of the Costello who begged off a fight for the leadership after Downer imploded, or who spent 11 years as Treasurer without a serious policy agenda, who let his Prime Minister turn a Coalition Government into the most appallingly profligate pack of porkbarrelers in Australian history, who didn't have the stomach to seriously pursue his leadership ambitions even after being repeatedly snubbed and insulted by Howard. Even after it was clear Howard was leading the party over the precipice."
And:
"It's typical of Costello, though, that even months after declaring he was pulling the pin, he still hovers at the edges of the political scene, unwilling to plunge in but seemingly unable to walk away. Can this bloke EVER make up his mind? If there's one great unknown that everyone would love to see in his memoirs, it's an explanation for his Hamlet-like indecisiveness, the apparent reluctance to commit, to sit back and wait.
But maybe he himself doesn't understand it."
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