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Goondiwindi News

A Small Step For Peter Costello . . . A Giant Leap For The Government?

Saturday November 25, 2000
About 350 people are sitting in the Goondiwindi Cultural Centre, a barn-like building on the outskirts of Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland. They're eating steak and drinking wine; many wear moleskins and riding boots. The crowd is warmed up by various performances: local National Party speakers,

Costello Gets The Blunt End Of The Bush

Friday November 24, 2000
``Mr Moneybags" retracted his fangs but kept on message when he visited the flood-stricken National Party heartland, writes Michelle Grattan. IN NATIONAL Party heartland country around the Queensland town of Goondiwindi, near the NSW border, they're politely blunt. At a party dinner on Wedne

Top Nat Angry As Branch Turns To Labor

Thursday November 23, 2000
GOONDIWINDI Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson reacted angrily yesterday after a National Party branch secretary wrote to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley to say that rural areas were ``dying" because of high fuel prices. Liz Tomlinson, a National Party branch secretary at Narrabri, a town