"COALITION communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has crashed into the economic debate, saying the Howard government made bad economic decisions in its final years, ones for which he accepts collective responsibility."
"Asked which of the Howard government's decisions were bad, he said: ''This isn't the time or the place, nor would I be able to comprehensively chronicle them all, but I think most of us feel that. Peter Costello clearly does."
"Mr Turnbull's view challenges the Coalition's formal position that it was its economic management that produced its repeated budget surpluses."
