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.
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.
Why did the Premier appoint Mr Brooks to the mining portfolio given his private company's link to the industry?
Launceston's crumbling water and sewerage infrastructure has not been allocated funds in this year's Budget.
The Treasurer refused to admit that he is trying to deceive Tasmanians into believing he has delivered a surplus when in fact he has not.
