Broken election promises hurting Abbott
His plans to cut school, hospital and broadcaster funding causes big approval fall
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TONY Abbott, whose relentless taunts of Julia Gillard for breaking an election promise helped make him Australia's 28th prime minister, is suffering the biggest fall in public approval for a new government in 30 years as he faces a similar attack on his integrity. Ms Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, had backtracked on a 2010 pre-election pledge not to introduce a carbon tax.
On the eve of the September 2013 election, Mr Abbott vowed he wouldn't cut funding to popular programmes. Now, in an effort to rein in a A$48.5 billion (S$53.9 billion) budget deficit, his government plans to reduce spending on schools and hospitals by A$80 billion over the next decade and trim funding for the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
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