Gillard and Swan started the present term with the most outrageous lie. Having guaranteed the voters that there would be no carbon tax and denouncing the liberals scare campaign that labor would introduce a carbon tax, they went ahead with a flimsy excuse that conditions had changed and their guarantee was worthless.

Every budget since then has been an elegant work of fiction with Swan cherry picking optimistically high revenues and low expenditures, and every budget blowing out by about $20bn. The corruption and wastage by federal labor has been echoed at the state levels.

Labor's contempt for the voters reduced their massive lead in 2007 to a hung parliament in 2010, and will in 2013 leave labor with almost wall to wall rejection by voters of Labor arrogance.

Shadow Minister - Labor's contempt for the voters reduced their massive lead in 2007 to a hung parliament in 2010, and will in 2013 leave labor with almost wall to wall rejection by voters of Labor arrogance.

I can just see the story in 2019 going 'The LNP contempt for the voters reduced their massive lead in 2013 to a hung parliament in 2016, and will in 2019 leave the LNP with almost wall to wall rejection by voters of LNP arrogance.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Here's the flip-side to the coin you're spinning:

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/abbott-focuses-on-profit-not-people-20130517-2js2r.html

cont'd ...

And another one that may help:

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/tony-abbotts-budget-reply-porkie-pies/