Here's a revisit of some of Gillards lies
THE question we now face: Is the Prime Minister of Australia a liar?
Her
Four Corners disaster on Monday night is part of a pattern.
Julia Gillard deceives and, I suspect, lies. And what's killing her is that she does it so badly.
Here are my seven deadliest examples.
The first: Just a "part-time" typist
The Socialist Forum was a radical group that helped to bring former members of the Communist Party into the Labor Party.
In 2007, asked about her involvement, Gillard said "many a long year ago" - mostly when "I was a university student" - she'd merely done "part-time clerical and administrative work" for this "debating society".
In fact, she'd been on the forum's management committee, organising events and giving speeches. The parliamentary register of interests states she was still a member from 1998 to 2002.
The second: "I did not say that"
On July 6, 2010, Gillard announced she'd talked to East Timor's President about her plan for a detention centre for boat people.
Her Immigration Minister said our "unauthorised boat arrivals will be returned to East Timor".
On July 8, after East Timor's Prime Minister said "what plan?", Gillard rewrote history: "I did not say that ... I'm not going to leave undisturbed the impression that I made an announcement about a specific location."
On July 9, mocked for flip-flopping, she conceded: "I said in my speech that one possibility was a centre in East Timor."
The third: "There will be no carbon tax"
Days before the 2010 election, Gillard promised: "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead."
A year later, Parliament passed her carbon tax.
The fourth: Fooling Andrew Wilkie
In 2010, independent MP Andrew Wilkie agreed to make Gillard prime minister after she promised to make all poker machines have mandatory pre-commitment.
Last month, scared of the backlash, Gillard broke her promise.
The fifth: "A bit of a lark"
In 2010, ABC journalist Annabel Crabb told a story of deception that must have come from Gillard.
In 1994, Gillard was Labor's health spokeswoman, and "one night ...fired off a despairing text message to a friend, confessing exasperatedly that health was too confusing for her".
To her horror, she accidentally sent the message to Tony Abbott, then the health minister. Fearing he'd embarrass her, she arranged to talk to a regional radio station.
"During the interview she laughingly confessed to having sent tongue-in-cheek text messages to her opponent feigning frustration with the minefield of health reform.
"Had (her email) been raised in Parliament, she would musically have read aloud from the transcript, demonstrating that the whole thing was a bit of a lark."
The sixth: "The Marriage Act will stay unchanged"
Gillard before the 2010 election promised not to allow same-sex marriage.
"We have determined as a Labor Party the Marriage Act will stay unchanged," she said.
"And that's what you should expect to see from the Gillard Labor Government if we're re-elected."
A Labor MP this week introduced a private member's bill to allow same-sex marriage, which the Labor Party now supports.
Says Gillard: "The undertakings I gave to the churches are undertakings that I'm abiding by ... There won't be a government bill."
The seventh: I did not plot
Gillard yesterday said she'd never plotted to remove Kevin Rudd as prime minister.
"I made a decision to run for prime minister on the day I walked into Kevin Rudd's office and asked him for a ballot," she said.
But on Monday came her embarrassing exchange with
Four Corners reporter Andrew Fowler.
Fowler: Did you know that people in your office, two weeks before Kevin Rudd was removed as prime minister, were preparing a (victory) speech that you subsequently delivered?
Gillard: Uh well, I did not ask for a speech to be prepared.
Fowler: My question was simply whether or not you knew.
Gillard: I heard your question and I've answered it.
My list does not include many of Gillard's broken promises or false claims about her "carbon tax".
No, I've listed only the seven deceptions I think damn her most.
So, is your Prime Minister a liar?
There is a lot more probably hundreds more
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