A Greens motion calling on the government to increase revenue in the State Budget has resoundingly passed the Parliament’s lower house. It’s an unprecedented call from MPs for the Liberals to fix their budget mess.
Tasmania’s budget is in a bad position after twelve years of Liberal mismanagement. Multiple market analysists have downgraded our credit rating, and the International Monetary Fund has even raised the prospect of external investigation.
For years, the Liberals have refused to listen to Treasury, or independent expert’s warnings about the state of our finances. They’ve put their heads in the sand and kept doing the same things that got us into this mess.
In their 2026 Fiscal Sustainability Report, Treasury sounded their loudest alarm yet. They warned of unprecedented levels of debt which threaten state sovereignty and may require a bailout.
Worse even than this news itself was the Liberals response to it. Rather than change course, they continued with their characteristic dismissal and denial.
The Liberal Government are going to send this state broke. With so many relying on our economy, it’s not just inadequate, it’s reckless.
While Tasmanian members of Parliament might have different views on how to raise revenue, they all agreed on one thing. The state of Tasmania’s finances are so bad, the advice of experts must be followed, and new revenue must be raised.
Tasmania’s lower house joined forces to call on the Liberal Government: listen to the experts and implement new revenue raising measures in this year’s State Budget. It’s now up to the Liberals to head those calls, for the good of all Tasmanians.
