Just like the promises of these people are ditched after the promises become inconvenient,

Tony Abbott
John Howard
Malcolm Fraser
John McMahon
John Gorton
Harold Holt
Robert Menzies

Although let's face it, Tony Abbott is but a midget amongst giants when it comes to personal integrity, compared to those others.

Rudy,

I see you have just reeled off a list of Liberals.

Perhaps you could list what election promises they made, and broke within the term of parliament for which they made them. I don't think you will find many.

Add to your list Rudd and Hawke.

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There will never be a GST
and even if there is
We'll never exempt food
and even if we do
We'd never touch the tax cuts
and even if we did
It would never ever hurt lower income farmers
and even if it did
etc etc etc etc et

Bad luck Rudy,

Howard went back to the polls asking for a mandate to introduce GST and nearly lost because of it.

He didn't promise no GST and immediately go about implementing it. He realised that things had changed, but because he had promised no GST he had to wait 'til the next election for a mandate on a different promise. Julia Gillard did not have the moral fibre to do so. She has made a promise and has a mandate from the electorate not to impose a carbon tax.

It is more convenient to ditch her promises the people and suck up to the greens.

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Rudy,

However you try and spin it, Howard did not introduce the GST before taking it back to a new election. If any thing, he did something extremely difficult for a politician, and admit he was initially wrong.

Julia Gillard on the other hand has not even admitted any mistake, just floated the flimsy "hung parliament" excuse, and reneged on her promises.

By your own measure that would make Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, far worse at telling the truth than Howard or any one else on your list.

I assume your flaming of Howard is because of your abject failure to find any election promise broken in the term promised by the liberals.