THE nation's top political journalists have failed to do it but comedian Dave Hughes appeared to extract the answer to Australia's burning political question from Peter Costello yesterday: when will the election be held?
The Treasurer - a top-table guest at the AFL grand final breakfast in Melbourne yesterday, along with the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader - let slip Australia would go to the polls on November 24.
In his capacity as MC, Hughes asked the Treasurer how he was feeling.
Costello replied he was "very toey indeed".
"What are you talking about, the election or the grand final?" Hughes asked.
"They all culminate together this time of year, of course - the last day of September, and the last day of November, isn't it?" Mr Costello said.
"Is it?" asked Hughes. "You've just called it have you?"
In a bid to recover, the Treasurer fired back. "Some time between now and Christmas — and it won't be Christmas Day."
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