Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

There is one particular pre-election commitment I am particularly attached to which says: ‘There will never, ever, ever be a GST.’ That is what those opposite pinned their pre-1996 election commitments on, together with a whole list of others in the period since then. The Leader of the Opposition frankly is grasping at straws when he contemplates his own history and that of his own party on this extraordinary fact. Look at the breaches of commitment undertaken by those opposite on something as core as ‘are you going to have Work Choices or not; are you going to have a consumption tax or not?’ These are the fundamental breaches in which you engaged and for which you stand condemned.

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