Then we had Tony Abbott telling us that we could only be sure he was telling us the truth if he was reading from a script. Go have a look at YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5ljcri6Nk&noredirect=1) if you want to see Tony Abbott taken apart by Kerry O'Brien on this.
Now we have Colin Barnett telling us that promises don't matter because "I don't think people study the promises" (see below para 6). Of course this begs the question: if people don't study the promises, why make them in the first place?
Well, I've got news for Mr Barnett - it really doesn't matter what he thinks, the fact is that many of us do study the promises before we vote in an election. And we have the right to believe that we are not being lied to when such promises are made.
This is by no means the first broken promise from the 2013 WA Election (http://brokenpromises.org.au) - and that's only in the first four months.
And a word of praise for Eleni Evangel, MLA for Perth, who has publicly broken ranks with the Premier, at least on the subject of the City of Vincent (see para 3 and the last two paras, above). She obviously knows her electorate well enough to recognise the good things Vincent does and the support it has in the community.
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