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Fragment    Next Fragment Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Page: 8365
Mrs MIRABELLA (Indi) (15:51): The minister, the member for
Charlton, gave us one of his least convincing performances. He
has this tactic: if you want to have everyone switch off, if the
potato is too hot to handle, speak in the most boring monotone
voice to bore people into submission. We have a government that
is not and should not be surprised that they are not believed.
It all goes back to an issue of trust. She stole an election
result on the explicit promise, 'There will be no carbon tax
under the government I lead', knowing full well that she did not
intend to fulfil that promise. They go to an election campaign
saying that they will not introduce a carbon tax. They belittle
and ridicule the Leader of the Opposition—who said that there
would be a carbon tax. Then they win government and give in to
the Greens, not in order to save the p