As was evidenced yesterday, we have significant issues of trust in relation to the government's transparency on this issue. It is an issue of significant public importance.
Yesterday, the government announced a huge change in policy, one that has been the subject of much debate in this place in recent weeks, indeed since the state election.
That the House orders the Premier to table the report provided by MaxGaming regarding the implementation of mandatory precommitment cards for poker machines by 5 p.m. ...
Surely, you must agree that the public has a right to understand on what basis the government has taken this sickening decision? This is the most basic form of transparency.
You put the interests of the pokies lobby ahead of vulnerable people. Premier, if you are willing to deceive them, how can Tasmanians have any confidence in you as Premier?
You have misled problem gamblers, you deceived Michael Ferguson and your colleagues, and you lied to the people of Tasmania. What do you say to them today?
Will you come clean, tell Tasmanians what the quid pro quo was for walking back on your policy and how much are the gambling industry donating?
Premier, this will be your legacy: a plan for perpetual pokies harm, a plan for profits over people. You have let the pokies lobby win again. It is shameful.
We should not be having to have a debate in the Legislative Council simply to have the government, or the Premier in this instance, release the terms of reference for a publicly...
We now have even more evidence the Liberals have scrapped their promised pokies reforms.