Re your comments; "Tony Abbott has said this election will be about trust ..." "... Mr Pyne said the coalition would announce costings for all its policies "between the time of the budget and the time of election". ..."
The issue of trust, or rather lack of it, goes a long way to explaining the ~63% dissatisfaction rating for Tony Abbott.
Until Malcolm Turnbull was treacherously deposed by Abbott the ALP and Labor placed the national interest and trust above personal political advantage; they had all but agreed to an ETS!
Abbott asked people to trust him in 2010; whereby his regurgitated John Howard policies and costings were released way too late for people to digest. After the election his deception was revealed - an $11b black hole!
Since Abbott lost the 2010 election and throughout the aftermath of the GFC, he has done his best to smash public confidence in the government; suspending standing orders some 72 times in his vindictive desperation to scare the pants of mainstream Australians.
But Abbott went over the top; way over and thereby betrayed the trust of mainstream Australians. In assuming they were gullible, he insulted them and offended their intelligence.
He grossly misrepresented the impact of both the MRRT and the CT/ETS. Come the July 1 impact date and Abbott's deception was exposed for the fraud that it was.
Now he's again asking us to trust HIM. Until we see the details we should take that as seriously as Christopher Pyne's hypocritical call to improve parliamentary processes - having spent 3 years denigrating and abusing them:
