I just want to point out that now Labor has, in Tony Abbotts words, formed a coalition with the greens they gained more first preference votes than his coalition. Since this has been one of his catchcrys over the past week will he admit that his claim to government on the strength of first preference votes should transfer to Labor?

There were plenty of misleading lines in the election campaign but the biggest was the outright lies by the Coalition about the debt.

The government, to maintain employment during the GFC, created money by having the Reserve Bank honour cheques written to pay for capital works such as the school buildings. If it owes money, the government owes it to a body the government owns on our behalf, and they do not need to repay it.

In the GFC situation there was no way that the money creation created inflation unlike the situation in the Howard/Costello era when the government permitted excessive creation of money by the banking system and thereby created asset value inflation and, in effect, denied working people the opportunity to buy a home unless both parents worked.

The extreme right is never willing to acknowledge when a government to the left of their own position does a better job than they would have done.

Belly,
Yes the promise was gone, but when someone pointed that out, she
immediately reinstated it.

I noticed the discrepancy and there was only a few hours between the
two statements. You gotta be quick ! Now you see it, now you don't !

Julia Gillard only discards the "non core" promises.

For Labor, the only core promises are those that get them elected next time.

<<Julia Gillard only discards the "non core" promises.>>

Thats rich coming from a tory like you SM.
Despite your efforts no one has forgotten who really stood for "core and non core promises".
I expect Abbott has more than a few non core promises he is planning to drop if he gets in.
Which is looking less and less likely as the Libs implode from their economic illiteracy and war with their partners the nationals.
Watch the return of the mad monk and the rapid dropping of the fake tony persona he has used during the election. He will be back to being the spiteful, negative,naysayer and spoiler he has always been.

I thought so too, mikk.

Wasn't the term "non-core promise" coined to describe John Howard's habit of regularly acting contrary to promises he'd made over several election campaigns?