Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Costello decides modesty is best policy
Prime Minister Treasurer, Peter Costello, has been visiting Banda Aceh to see for himself how Australia’s generous aid to the Boxing Day Tsunami victims is being spent. Australia has now allocated $280m of the $1bn pledged.
Now Costello is not the modest type: he never misses an opportunity to blow his own trumpet. Indeed he has even evolved a double-jointed spine to facilitate this.
Not content with wondering around and nodding and smiling courteously for each rebuilding project, at every opportunity he mentions that he could only be so generous thanks to his great stewardship of the Australian economy. It is due to our greater wealth, that we could afford to give this aid.
Peter Costello: modest and tactful.
Costello decides modesty is best policy
Posted by Living with Matilda at 1:25 PM
Now Costello is not the modest type: he never misses an opportunity to blow his own trumpet. Indeed he has even evolved a double-jointed spine to facilitate this.
Not content with wondering around and nodding and smiling courteously for each rebuilding project, at every opportunity he mentions that he could only be so generous thanks to his great stewardship of the Australian economy. It is due to our greater wealth, that we could afford to give this aid.
Peter Costello: modest and tactful.
Posted by Living with Matilda at 1:25 PM
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