The Source: Peter Costello overlooks basic housekeeping amid sudden exit as Nine chairman

He may be slightly distracted after calling it quits at the Nine Network after an airport fracas with a journalist, but Peter Costello has apparently forgotten to update his website.

Peter Costello has abruptly departed from the Nine Network.

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Given the abruptness of his departure from the Nine Network, Peter Costello might be forgiven for overlooking some important housekeeping.

His website, petercostello.com.au, has yet to update recent events, which include his unedifying altercation with a journalist in an airport, amid allegations that the network that he long chaired had been a less than “safe” place for women in the news divisions.

Nine chairman Peter Costello at Canberra Airport before the altercation. Picture: Liam Mendes

To be fair, the website also states that Costello is chairman of the Australian Future Fund — a role he announced he was departing last October.

It’s yet to be seen if any update will include the view of a Nine Network newspaper editorial on Monday: “What was rubbish was Costello’s belief that he could hold on to his job. It was simply untenable for the chair of a media company that employs hundreds of journalists to seemingly shove a reporter to the ground, laugh, walk off and carry on in the boardroom as if nothing happened.”