State Budget 2016: Parks Funding Slashed and Burnt
Tthe Budget papers show more than $6 million cut from an already underfunded Parks and Wildlife Service across the forward Estimates.
Tthe Budget papers show more than $6 million cut from an already underfunded Parks and Wildlife Service across the forward Estimates.
The Greens’ Alternative Budget restores frontline funding to education, and state Government's share of responsibility for sewerage and water infrastructure.
It continues a long-standing tradition of the Tasmanian Greens to present an alternative vision for the future of Tasmania.
The last survey of rural confidence found that Tasmanian farmers are feeling flat about the year ahead.
In the policy and parameter statements in budget paper 1 for this year there is a policy item for Tasmanian Health Service additional funding of $10 million.
The Premier is clearly getting ready for another round of public sector bashing.
Students, parents and educators were shocked when the Government axed the highly effective pathway planners in 2014.
The Premier rightly condemned the vandalism of priceless Aboriginal rock art, yet is fighting in the courts for vandalism to continue in the Tarkine.
The specific purpose of the Multicultural Friends of Parliament was to listen to the concerns and to the views of communities.
Minister Ferguson has cut funding to the Tasmanian Sex Worker Project, a frontline preventive health investment that has been running for a decade.