TasWater Costs to Rate Payers
Yesterday the Treasurer issued not so veiled threats to councils not to lift their rates to cover the loss of dividends from TasWater.
Yesterday the Treasurer issued not so veiled threats to councils not to lift their rates to cover the loss of dividends from TasWater.
Since taking office the Government has waged a relentless war on councils and have refused to intervene and do their job as umpire in council disputes.
I have noticed a couple of concerning things in the paediatric areas of the North West Regional Hospital and the Launceston General Hospital.
In the wake of the New South Wales Premier, Mike Baird, passing legislation to ban greyhound racing, Andrea Dawkins asks the Premier if he will do the same.
Submissions close on Friday for the Government's program to use taxpayers' money in an attempt to revive the dying native forest-logging industry.
CEO of TasWater, Miles Hampton, has publicly stated that the ailing water infrastructure in Launceston is the community's problem.
The Hazara people are among the most persecuted of minorities.
Tascorp chairman Don Challen last year told GBE estimates that maintaining the state's strong credit rating is a number one concern.
In the past 11 months, according to the ABS 5 200 jobs have been lost, and youth unemployment is soaring.
The four-year Commonwealth funding for Palliative Care Tasmania ended in June.