In Metro Tasmania GBE hearings today, Michael Ferguson refused to deny plans to convert Hobart’s treasured meeting place, City Hall, into a transit centre.
The Liberal Government’s policies are threatening the sustainability of Hydro Tasmania and causing the loss of jobs.
The Greens welcome the move towards a state basketball team. The Derwent Entertainment Centre deal, however, must be approached with caution.
Shame on you, Treasurer, for bringing us all into disrepute for being incapable of speaking the truth. That is a problem for this Liberal Government.
The premier of the day says we will not be selling anything and, five years later, the for-sale list is long and it is growing.
On coming to office in April 2014 you said, 'Let me be clear, we will not be selling any government or public-owned assets'.
Last November the Treasurer sought to convince Tasmanians that the Government would not be selling it off.
When the Government were first elected, they said they would not be privatising public assets.
This morning on ABC Radio, Labor’s Michelle O’Byrne refused to take the sale of TasNetworks ‘off the table’.
The Government has privatised 29 000 hectares of plantations for around $40 million to $55 million less than it cost taxpayers to establish them.
