This is a budget defined by one man’s lifelong agenda.
Eric Abetz is trying to make his wildest right-wing dreams come true. The result will be a nightmare for Tasmanians.
Treasurer Abetz isn’t even trying to hide his motivations. On his first day selling the budget to the community, he affectionately quoted Margaret Thatcher. You can’t be clearer than that.
Eric Abetz is slashing health, education, housing, child protection, the lot. But he’s still pushing ahead with a stadium that will cost billions of dollars.
This heartless hypocrisy shows he’s more interested in cuts for the sake of ideology than he is in actually balancing the budget.
A Treasurer focused on fixing the budget would scrap the stadium, make big corporations pay their fair share, and stop spending on things that don’t matter. Instead, Eric Abetz is gutting all the critical services Tasmanians rely on.
