OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott constantly accuses the Prime Minister of ”lying” when she made a commitment before the last election not to introduce a tax on carbon. But who’s the liar here?

A lie is when you say something is true when you know it is not true. This is quite different from a commitment, which is a promise to do something in the future.

We can be absolutely certain that Abbott, as a former student in a Catholic seminary, knows the substantive and moral difference between a lie and a commitment.

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