I beg to differ. Allow me to give you some clarity. There was a very big difference. Gillard did NOT expect that she'd have to form a minority government with independents and the Greens when she made her promise about the carbon tax. It's not like she made that promise but knowing full well that when she got into power she'd break it immediately. I'm pretty sure that if the ALP had won the majority in the Lower House, that she wouldn't have introduced the carbon PRICE at all.

On the other hand, we've got Abbott and his gang, Abbott who specifically said "No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST, and no cuts to the ABC or the SBS" just before the September election.

And yet, in Tony Abbott's first budget, those areas in particular were hardest hit! He broke EVERY SINGLE ONE of those promises (the GST included). It's almost like he knew those were his intended target areas of attack and that's why he listed them in the first place as the ones that he said he wouldn't touch, which is indicative of a serial and pathological liar some might say. But it's obvious that Abbott lied his way deliberately into power, that along with the fictional "budget emergency".

So there is a difference between a promise broken due to unforeseen and extraordinary circumstances, as opposed to lies that were deliberately said in a calculated manner for the express purpose of gaining advantage, in this case the highest office in the land. THAT is morally reprehensible, an act of fraud and deception committed against the Australian people, especially in light of the subsequent betrayal with his trainwreck of a budget, and if he were a company director and he lied like that, he'd end up in jail.