When former Liberal Prime Minister, John Howard, was finishing off his autobiography Lazarus Rising in 2010 I asked him whether it would contain any political bile.
‘Yes. But just one chapter ,’ he answered.
‘On Costello?’ I queried, presuming that Howard would have reserved a special serve for his deputy after years of acrimony which persisted up to the ill-fated 2007 federal election.
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Malcolm Colless is a freelance journalist.
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