Given your long‑stated attitude to intergenerational debt, you've just justified this by saying you're going to 'grow the pie', yet your own Treasury, in the Pre-Election Financial
Jobs are diminishing in regional areas. The quality of the jobs and the sustainability of the jobs is diminishing. That is not what a sustainable industry looks like.
The Tasmanian Planning Commission has been crystal clear. Any economic benefits of the stadium are far and away outweighed by the disbenefits.
I rise to speak on the Matter of Public Importance topic of global economic shocks, and I begin by acknowledging that the global economic context is important.
Come on, Premier: open your eyes, acknowledge the truth and choose what is good for the people of Tasmania. Ditch the stadium.
First, I want to go to a couple of things the Treasurer hinted at. He talked about cutting red tape.
As we like to hear from this side of the House, 50 per cent of the state is protected, thankfully, in parks and reserves of some description. It is not fully protected ...
We are debating a bill that - as the member for Launceston reminded us all - is dealing with public money that came about as a result of an election promise that has not been consulted, and will have an impact on the Budget.
Despite the desperate need in our community, the government is demanding efficiencies across government departments.
Deputy Speaker, I thank the member, Mr Wood, for bringing this MPI forward on stability and economic future. I will make the point up front that stability is completely relative to who you are, where you live and how your circumstances are.