We should not forget that at the last election Gillard attempted to neutralise the border protection issue by promising the East Timor solution, to neutralise climate change by ruling out a carbon tax and by promising a gradual, consensual approach to a possible emissions trading scheme, and to neutralise economic concerns by guaranteeing a return to surplus by 2013… Now Rudd is attempting to neutralise the asylum-seeker issue with Papua New Guinea and Nauru solutions, neutralise the carbon tax by accelerating the switch to an emissions trading scheme and, again, is pledging a return to surplus in three years… There is a pattern here. Add to that the 2007 campaign, when Rudd promised to stop the “reckless spending”, take a “meat axe” to the public service and turn back the boats - and did none of the above.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:42:22 +0000
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