Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

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When he lost a fight with Peter Costello in the expenditure review committee over some expensive proposal or other he’d go straight into John Howard’s office to try to get the decision overturned … He never really understood the meaning of fiscal conservatism …

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