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Piscator 发表于 2013-8-7 14:31 
卡斯特罗是谁？
Peter Costello,
Howard 时期的财政部长，他在位期间做了不少大事，经济很见起色
Federal Treasurer (1996–2007)
The Liberal/National coalition headed by John Howard won the 1996 election, defeating Labor's Paul Keating, and Costello became Federal Treasurer at age 38. He oversaw the return to and maintenance of federal budget surpluses, which enabled significant reduction in government debt. Costello brought down twelve consecutive Federal Budgets, including ten surpluses. During this period he eliminated the Commonwealth Government net debt of $96 billion. Inflation, interest rates[19] and unemployment all fell and remained generally low during Costello's term as Treasurer.
Tax reform became a major policy focus for Costello. Although John Howard had promised during the 1996 election campaign that he would "never, ever" introduce a GST, it returned as Liberal Party policy for the 1998 election. It was passed through the Senate with the help of the Australian Democrats. Until July 2005, Costello's own agenda of labour market deregulation remained blocked by the government's lack of a Senate majority.
In 1998, Costello and his wife Tanya, along with Tony Abbott and his wife Margaret, successfully sued author Bob Ellis for false statements he made about them in his book Goodbye Jerusalem.[20]
Costello advocated for change to a republic at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998. He rejected any suggestion that Australia was not already an independent nation and said that the Australian Constitution works "remarkably well". It was the institution of monarchy that was the crux of his argument for change:[21]
“ It is commonly said that all this argument is about is whether we want an Australian as our head of state. If that were all we wanted, one of the options to fix it would be an Australian monarchy but, in truth, the problem is more the concept of monarchy itself. The temper of the times is democratic; we are uncomfortable with an office that appoints people by hereditary. In our society in our time we prefer appointment by merit. ”
Costello supported the 1999 referendum on whether Australia should become a republic.[22] However, he has also stated, at a Liberal and National Party gathering in 1992 in company with John Sharp MP, that he would support an Australia-based system of constitutional monarchy, in which a member of the House of Windsor would be invited to relocate to Australia and serve as the monarch of Australia, in place of the current system in which the crowns of Australia and the United Kingdom are both held by the same individual.[citation needed]
After the 2001 election, he attracted criticism for not securing funding for a key election promise to extend the Medicare safety net.[citation needed] In February 2006, Costello caused controversy during a lecture at the Sydney Institute when questioned about the government's refusal to legally recognise same-sex marriage. He stated, "I think we do recognise the rights of gay and lesbian people in Australia. We do not criminalise [their] conduct or behaviour." He also pointed out that the law was changed in 2004 to recognise same-sex couples with regards to superannuation. He stated that marriage should only be recognised between heterosexual couples.[23] Also during the same speech, Costello criticised "mushy misguided multiculturalism," warning immigrants that the acceptance of Australian values was "not optional." |
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Web of Pearls (2014-9-17) silvia 
发表于 2013-8-4 23:45
