Political Activist
Costigan was active in the campaign to reform the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. Costigan, along with a group of lawyers including John Button, John Cain, Xavier Connor QC, Barry Jones, and Richard McGarvie, formed a reform group called the Participants which challenged the undemocratic state executive for control of the party and supported the political agenda of then opposition leader, and later prime minister, Gough Whitlam
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