Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 16
th, 2018 at 8:39am:
I'm not going to hold my breath. Labor's promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. We're still waiting for Hawke's promise of no kids in poverty by 1990. Gillard's no carbon tax promise was a blatant lie. Rudd promised to stop the boats but did the exact opposite. Labor is full of pathological liars.
Big call on the back of the last 4 consecutive Liberal PM's we have had to suffer.
Quote:We're still waiting for Hawke's promise of no kids in poverty by 1990.
How are the Libs going with Abbott's $550 power rebate ?
I would prefer to see a PM make an attempt like this and fail than to not try However it is widely known that he got the announcement wrong, it wasn't what he was meant to say.
Quote:Gillard's no carbon tax promise was a blatant lie.
At the time she made the agreement she believed that it was not a tax and argued this position for a period of time, see her argument with Alan Jones. Eventually she accepted that it was a tax, someone who understood explained it to her. This makes the accusation of a deliberate lie untrue, She was wrong more than dishonest.
IMO it was irrelevant as it was by far the best solution. Had she been a bit cleverer she could have implemented the fixed carbon price in a different manner to insure that it was not a tax.