Hey Joe - now about those promises....................

"Truth is the glue that binds both sides in the political transaction: you promise, I vote, you deliver"

"The Budget completes the picture, revealing a government that prioritises, then rations, its truthfulness, and does it with a brazen sense of self confidence: a certainty that a government has a higher calling than the strict fulfilment of its word. That's its own success and survival, of course."

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A fib too far: the death rattle of political trust            By ABC's Jonathan Green