Speeches

For the Treasurer to say that we are simply making stuff up and talking gobbledygook is utterly disrespectful, including to his own Treasury because he pointed at things like the..

This state will spend a minimum of $1.13 billion. Of that $865.7 million will be funded by the state government. The Treasurer says we don't understand operational borrowings, ...

This is a huge amount of debt and, whether the Treasurer wants to get into a debate about what is or is not in the substantial capital expenditure, at the end of the day, ...

The difference, honourable Speaker, is that this is a trainwreck which is ongoing and unfolding as we speak. The Treasurer has painted a rosy picture of the stadium and the ...

This is a motion that we have brought to the House to try to establish some agreed facts as we go into what is one of the biggest debates that this parliament will have, and indeed

He spoke about this being the worst deal in history for Tasmania and that may be true, because we know that the AFL have got a gift, really.

Not only is this stadium a massive white elephant - we have had that warning time and time again, whether it be Prof Nicholas Gruen, or the Tasmanian Planning Commission itself...