A lesson perhaps, not to promise to remove a major source of government revenue (CT), at the same time as promise a return to surplus, at the same time as promise not to cut anything.
Magic wored there is "promise".
I can't believe that this era of Pollies hasn't worked out that you simply cannot make a promise.
The best you can do with all honesty is to outline a plan, and with measures on the drawing board to implement the plan.
We've all seen how the economic climate can change very quickly - and much of it out of the control of the incumbent Gubbmint, so they need to get ahead of the game, point that out when starting the Election Campaign and go from there.
But like always; we still struggle to get anyone in the top echelon who are connected to the real world of average people.
We need business entrepreneurs and successes; (excluding Clive Palmer
) - not career Union Hacks and ex-lawyers who have only know the inside of a classroom and then the Party room.
Having said all that; I think the Libs have done a decent job so far. Could they have done better? We will never know, but they certainly haven't been as bad as Labor were not that long ago.
Where they have come unstuck is in not having the ability to sell their plan to the public very well, and not having the foresight to plan in a possible collapse in the mining boom, dollar collapse (loss of revenues) and a public who is only concerned about their own here and now.
