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I generally agree. However, I think that JH did lie when he said "never ever" about the GST. He said that for a political reason at the time - as a means of getting through the next election. It was only subsequently that he "offered" people the choice. Offering people a choice can be a lie when you have promised not to offer people that choice, which is what he effectively did. Further, many people may well not have voted for JH the first time had they known that doing so would open up the risk that a Liberal Government, with the electoral strength that all government's enjoy after one term given voter's relucatance to change governments quickly, would use that position to push through an unpopular GST subsequently. Thus, JH one his first election on a false premise and, it seems reasonable to suggest, he knew when he mouthed the never ever phrase that it was not a promise he would renege on later.
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