That, Cliptin, is in the grand Australian tradition. Many an Australian Premier or Prime Minister has done the same in years gone by.
For example, former Prime Minister Paul Keating promised to slow up our overheated economy with "the recession we had to have", but delivered the greatest economic disaster since 1929; Victorian Premier Jeff Kennet promised medium-rare ignorance and barely concealed prejudice but delivered the ignorance still-dripping raw and the bigotry in stark full-frontal; while current Prime Minister John Howard promised bumbling incompetence, a modest commitment to honesty, and a blinkered vision, but delivered total non-performance of anything to speak of, an upgraded and much firmer commitment to cabinet dishonesty of the hand-in-till variety, and a vision for the future of this nation so blinkered that he has taken to writing his speeches in braile.