Judge me when you've lived the regime, Gillard tells voters

JULIA GILLARD has urged a hostile electorate to reserve its judgment on the carbon tax until the 2013 election, by when people would have had a ''lived experience'' of the new regime.
Acknowledging she was being punished in the opinion polls for breaking her promise to not introduce a carbon tax, Ms Gillard said that had she stuck to that promise, ''absolutely nothing'' would have been done about climate change for another three years.

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