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The first Clive Palmer

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

Joh for PM Paul Davey

NewSouth, pp.328, $29.99, ISBN: 9781742234335

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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