THE body language says it all when Federal Treasurer Peter Costello, sulking with great disappointment, is understandably steaming under his breath.
It would not be surprising if he wondered whether history was repeating itself. Is he the innocent victim of a similar political situation in which former Prime Minister Bob Hawke failed to live up to an accord with his deputy Paul Keating in the late 1980s?
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