"Regardless of anything Mr Howard did, Ms Gillard shouldn't have broken her word.
Just because your opponents do something doesn't make it right."
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Actually, John Howard did it differently. He took it to the people BEFORE an election and let them decide if he had a mandate.
An excerpt from the link below which explains his original refusal of GST, but then three years later he put it to the people BEFORE an election. IMO, this is what Ms Gillard should do and only implement it IF she has a working majority in her own right - that is if she has any honesty left.:
"John Howard on May 2, 1995:
No, there's no way that a GST will ever be part of our policy . . . Never ever. It's dead. It was killed by the voters in the last election.
Spot the difference. Howard in The Australian on election day, October 3, 1998, after campaigning openly for a GST:
If we win, no matter what the majority is, if we win and have a working majority, I will be entitled to claim a mandate to implement the tax plan."
