Peter Costello has bought the Howard Government time, but not an election victory in his sixth and possibly last federal budget.Repairing the damage to its key constituencies by its generosity to pensioners and self-funded retirees only provides the foundation for an election campaign, but is clearly not the killer document designed to get it over the line.The only possible conclusions which could be drawn from the political strategy behind the budget are that the Government has run out of ideas…
