It is so easy to check if something is fact or not by copying the first paragraph or so and googling it.

People just share things willy nilly without doing a simple check, drives me crazy on Facebook, and on here.

It was actually Peter Costello who said this:

"However, it was in fact then Federal Treasurer Peter Costello who actually uttered the comments. A November 2005 article in the Herald Sun noted: ISLAMIC extremists wanting to enforce fundamentalist law should get out of Australia, federal Treasurer Peter Costello said yesterday.

In a significant hardening of the Government's rhetoric, Mr Costello declared Australia would never be turned into an Islamic state.

"There are Islamic states around the world that practise sharia law," he said. "And if that is your object, you may well be much more at home in such a country than trying to turn Australia into one of those countries, because it is not going to happen." Then Federal Education Minister Dr Brendan Nelson was also quoted in the media as stating that "those who do not accept and teach Australian values should 'cle...