Peter Costello is the Member for Higgins in the Parliament of Australia.

Mr Costello completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws at Monash University. From 1981-90 he was a solicitor at Mallesons Melbourne, and then a self-employed barrister.

Mr Costello was a regular advocate in the Australian National Wage Cases and appeared in some of Australia's best-known industrial relations cases.

Between 1984 and 1986 he was a part-time tutor in the Law Faculty and the (then) Economics & Politics faculty at Monash University.

Mr Costello was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1990 for the seat of Higgins and has been re-elected in every election since then. In his time in Opposition he was Shadow Minister for Corporate Law Reform and Consumer Affairs from 1990-92, Shadow Attorney Shadow Minister for Justice 1992-93, Shadow Minister for Finance 1993-94 and Shadow Treasurer 1994-96.

While in Government, Mr Costello was Deputy Leader of the Federal Liberal Party from 1994 to 2007. He was also Australia's longest serving Federal Treasurer, having been in this role from 1996 to 2007.