The Abbottalypse continues to mushroom outwards today consuming all policy, politics, personnel and strategy in its path. The overriding fallout is general dismay at any budget retreat. Peter Costello launches a broadside, at The Australian:
PETER Costello has warned that any retreat from the federal government’s savings push could “completely break the budget and the country in the years ahead”.
Australia’s longest-serving treasurer and the chairman of the Future Fund told The Australian yesterday that the government would be “letting down the country” if it “gave up the effort to balance the budget”.
