GBE Privatisation – Land Titles Office
In your state of the state speech last week, you announced your plan to sell off our GBEs. The only non-GBE you flagged was the Land Titles Office. This is oddly specific.
In your state of the state speech last week, you announced your plan to sell off our GBEs. The only non-GBE you flagged was the Land Titles Office. This is oddly specific.
We have talked about the debacle of the TT‑Line and TasPorts' delay of those ferries, and it has hit tourism very hard.
The scheme to privatise it through the EOI has resulted in nine projects coming through in 10 years. That is not enhancing our tourism industry at all.
All of Tasmania's GBEs - except, of course, 'sacred cow' Hydro - are on the chopping block, including Forestry Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority.
Your decision to consider privatising all but one of Tasmania's government businesses has been widely condemned. You have no mandate from Tasmanians for this reckless move.
Interesting captain's pick by the Premier in tapping Saul Eslake on the shoulder. Saul Eslake, from what I remember-Mr Bayley, can you remind me? Was Saul Eslake just disregarded?
What will this mean for critical sites like Mount Pleasant? What will it mean for the forgotten segment of Parks and Wildlife amid an extinction and biodiversity crisis?
The government can dress up their plans to support enterprise and business any way they like, but the reality is that they want to carve up Tasmania and sell it off.
Your state of the state speech might have been listless in delivery, but it announced a dramatic lurch to the right for you and your government. We all know where that comes from.
Is it arrogance or pressure from hard right colleagues that makes you think you have a mandate to sell off TasNetworks, MAIB, the Public Trustee or Metro?