'Don't trust me, I'm a politician'
Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott had the country's political establishment in uproar yesterday after an astonishing admission that voters often cannot trust what he says.
Abbott's slip, just months before expected elections, came during a TV interview when he was taken to task for first promising no new taxes, then proposing a new levy just a month later.
"Sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark," Abbott told 7:30 Report anchor Kerry O'Brien on ABC TV.
"The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared, scripted remarks."
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