Hegarty wrote:
Kaptain Kouta wrote:
bluehotel wrote:
Hewson as well as Howard ran it
Howard most definitely did NOT run the GST as an election issue. He won an election and introduced it in that term, after saying "Never ever" before the election.
Yes, everyone knew he wanted to introduce it, but that's not the same as actually raising and debating it before the electorate.
Short memories.
You are completely wrong about this.He went to the 96 election saying 'never ever' will there be a gst and then he went to the 98 election with a policy to introduce a GST and just got over the line notwithstanding they had less of the primary vote.It was introduced in 99.
No.
He went to the 96 election saying "I'm not Paul Keating" said in the 96-98 Parliament "never ever", and promptly introduced it in 99/2000 after the 98 election.
It was never debated as an election issue. At all. Whether everyone knew he wanted to or not is another thing. It was never put before the electorate as an election issue and debated.
I'm happy to be proved wrong.