All politicians will tell fibs to get into office, promise programs that dont get delivered, provide smaller tax cuts than the first announced etc etc etc.
HOWEVER, to tell a blatant lie, ie, the carbon tax, is just political suicide. That said, I personally dont think its Julia who pushed that, its those rabid hippie greenie lunatics who dealt their way into power.
Pauline hanson once said"The problem with the political system in Australia is its based on MOB RULE", and I beleive she is correct. A large percentage of poeple voted for the greens because they didn't want to vote for either of the big two. Problem was they only understood a small portion of the Greens policies, the remaining policies are so detrimental to Australia and its economy , that if instituted you could almost guarantee a civil uprising to be the result of them.
Such policies advocate the discontinuing of all mining, manufacturing and GM agriculture in australia. Theres about 3 million people and 65% of Australias GDP out the window in an instant. They aso advocate rises in taxes to the highest in the world, nationalisation of many public services that are currently public owned enitities etc, So there goes your retirement nest egg as well.
The only solution I can see is the removal of the compulsory voting laws in Australia, at least that way the people who do vote will, generally speaking, be those who have taken an interest in whats going on, and not just turn up to have their name crossed off and avoid a fine, because these are the voters that have created the comedic govenment we have today. Unfortunately this will never happen in Australia, as certain political parties have already recognised that their voter demographic are exactly this "mob rule"group, and they'd never get re-elected if they didn't force people to vote.
My prediction for the future, come 2013 labor will be reduced to a minor party, the greens will cease to exist as a party in Australia, and our next prime minister will be............... Mr Malcom Turnbull.
