"For the fourth time this week, the Abbott government has resorted to sophistry as it muddles around trying to disguise what many are now calling policy chaos."
"The unpopular measure cannot proceed in the current parliament, press gallery journalists from different organisations were told.
Yet just 12 hours later, even that level of clarity was being deliberately re-clouded in a renewed assault on straight talking.
Treasurer Joe Hockey told reporters the policy remained as central as it had been since the budget declaring "our policy stands".
Reporter: "Why was the Prime Minister's office briefing that it was gone yesterday?"
Hockey: "I haven't heard that."
Reporter: "Will you take it, next week, to the Parliament?"
Hockey: "We will take it when we are able to take it. There's a lot of work before the Parliament at the moment."
If the government's precise position on the GP-tax is now clear to you, you're doing better than most of its own MPs.
Remember, just hours before, this was designated a "barnacle" by no less than the prime minister's own office."
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...tudy-in-chaos-management-20141127-11vg8f.html
