A Lie Dressed as Spin

You have to hand it to Peter Costello. He has an innate ability to present believable [to the uninformed] spin to any newsworthy event. Speaking about the government taking control of the Senate ....

Well if the Government hadn't have got a majority in the Senate there'd be no tax cuts today because the legislation itself hasn't gone through, but it's the reality that when the new Senate assembles in August, that it can validate these tax cuts that means every Australian is going to get a tax cut.

So this actually shows the good things you can do for the Australian public with a majority in the Senate.

Bollocks!

If the government did not have control of the Senate, it's likely that the vast majority of tax payers would have had a larger tax cut. The government would have needed to negotiate to get them through, and it in all probability would have compromised towards the opposition's position.