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Peter Beattie - QLD Premier (19/8/2007) (2007x27)

Air date: Aug 19, 2007

This week the country got a lesson in how politics and political reporting works at the highest level and it was not pretty. Federal Treasurer Peter Costello had an off the record dinner with three journalists two years ago and they say he told them of his plan to destabilise and eventually replace Prime Minister John Howard.