The Premier has told Parliament he accepts Mr Brooks' explanation that he only used his MSS email address for personal purposes.
Mr Brooks and Mr Groom, have either not read or chosen to ignore the code of conduct by knowingly misleading Parliament.
The Premier is now a Cabinet minister down and there is surely jockeying for the position amongst the enthusiastic Dorothys on your backbench.
The public record states that 9 out of 11 specialists from the Launceston General Hospital's Emergency Department have resigned.
It is now six days since the former mining minister told four distinct lies to the Estimates committee.
Why did the Premier appoint Mr Brooks to the mining portfolio given his private company's link to the industry?
Last year the Premier stood by the Energy minister, Matthew Groom, when he knowingly mislead Parliament. Last week it was Mr Brooks.
Anyone who was in the committee or watched the footage knows the former minister told a series of four deliberate untruths to the Parliament.
By both the Auditor-General's and Treasury's best measure the state will be in deficit by $94.2 million - not back in the black but in the red.
Launceston's crumbling water and sewerage infrastructure has not been allocated funds in this year's Budget.
