A Greens motion calling on the government to increase revenue in the State Budget has passed the Parliament’s lower house
Five years after warning about the direction of the state's finances, last
week Treasury released its new fiscal sustainability report warning of things getting rapidly
worse.
The Liberals’ newly released pokies policies are nothing more than a sham.
Treasurer Abetz was unable to provide any explanation today of the many costs his budget doesn’t account for, demonstrating his claimed "pathway to surplus" is nothing but a sham.
Similarly, this has been my first budget and it is absolutely astonishing that that was a late budget. It was not that long ago, really.
It is startling to me that we had a budget not that many months ago and here we are being asked to approve another almost half‑a‑billion dollars to fund things for Tasmanians.
I would like to hear from the Treasurer why this is such a large figure in such a short period of time and why it was not recognised earlier in the budget.
That is not without some strong criticisms of elements of how we got to where we are, and that's not without some deep concerns about elements contained within the budget.
The Liberals’ response to Saul Eslake’s independent review into the state’s finances is either a shocking exercise in delusion or an outright deception.
The Liberals’ massive budget blowout should be the last straw for their billion-dollar Hobart stadium.
