It is often said that the lines between public relations and journalism are blurring, but surely there is still a difference, writes Margaret Simons.
Innocuous
Costello takes his eye off the ball, and leaves big business guessing
While Peter Costello was busy working on his $34 billion tax cut package last week, he allowed a seemingly innocuous change to capital gains tax for business to threaten tens of billions of dollars in takeovers and mergers, writes Glenn Dyer.







