Promise Tracker: The Coalition Government's 2013 election commitments

Tony Abbott and his team took a long list of promises to the 2013 federal election.

Mr Abbott set a high standard when it comes to keeping promises. In 2011 he said: "It is an absolute principle of democracy that governments should not and must not say one thing before an election and do the opposite afterwards."

On September 14, 2015, Mr Abbott lost a leadership ballot to Malcolm Turnbull, who said he had no plan to change the Government's policies because they were working well but he would do so "if they don't work as well as we think, or we think others can work better".

"When governments change policies, it's often seen as a backflip, or a backtrack, or an admission of error. That is rubbish. We've got to be agile all the time," Mr Turnbull told AM's Michael Brissenden on September 21.

On May 8, 2016, Mr Turnbull used the Senate's blocking of the bill to re-establish the Australian Building and Construction Commission, a key promise made by Mr Abbott, as a trigger to call a double dissolution election, putting the Government into caretaker mode.

As there had been no election since Mr Turnbull was sworn in as Prime Minister, ABC Fact Check continued to track the promises made before the 2013 election.

Watch this video for a quick demo on how to use the Promise Tracker, and check below to see which promises the Coalition kept, and those that fell short of the mark.



