Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said that he expects 'to continue to take a whacking in the polls' over his controversial plans for a mining tax, but is still determined to introduce it.
He told the ABC, "This business of reform is a tough business, is a hard business. It's never some sort of even and smooth trajectory."
Recent polls have shown the government's support is waning and Mr Rudd gave no hint of an early election.
"We have an election due by whatever it is, March or April next year, and we only have three-year terms," he said on the 7.30 Report.
"You've got to use the time effectively. You can't just dodge hard questions like tax reform, you've got to engage in it."
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Advertising campaign
Kevin Rudd has also defended the government's advertising campaign over the resources super profit tax, saying Labor is still spending far less on ads than the Howard government.
The Prime Minister says Labor spent a third in its first year of what the Howard government spent on advertising the previous year.
The government's $37 million ad campaign backing the proposed tax was launched in response to an anti-tax ad campaign launched by the mining industry.
The opposition has slammed the government's action.
