Latest News from the Tasmanian Liberals

Jacquie Petrusma, Liberal Member for Franklin

It’s time for the Tasmanian Labor Party to stop hiding from the public and the media on key issues facing Tasmania.

Tasmanians are scratching their heads at why unions are disrupting essential services due to industrial action, when the Government has offered a six per cent payrise over three years.

Michael Ferguson, Minister for Health

A hospital in the home service aimed at keeping patients out of hospital and cared for in the community is now permanent in the North of the state.

Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training

Nearly 7200 Year 11 and 12 students begin their Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) written exams from tomorrow, November 12.

Written exams start tomorrow with Food and Nutrition, Mathematics Specialised and Ancient History and finish on Thursday 22 November with Outdoor Leadership and Computer Science.

Students will sit at 27 exam centres around the state and in more than 42 courses.

Elise Archer, Minister for Environment

Volunteers from the Channel Men’s Shed have used their skills to help fabricate 44 breeding boxes for the endangered Orange-bellied parrot.

The nest boxes will be located at the new Five Mile Beach breeding facility as well as the existing captive breeding site at Taroona, which will remain operational until the new fit-for-purpose facility is completed at Five Mile Beach.

Michael Ferguson, Minister for Health

Paul Lennon has a short memory when it comes to Labor’s mismanagement of a new Royal Hobart Hospital – Labor spent more than $150 million of taxpayers money on the project yet failed to lay a single brick of the new inpatient precinct.

It was Paul Lennon himself in 2006 who said “Labor is rebuilding the Royal from the inside out, rather than looking at a new site”, only to change his mind six months later but refuse to release advice on why.

Jacquie Petrusma, Liberal Member for Franklin

It’s time for the Tasmanian Labor Party to stop hiding from the public and the media on key issues facing Tasmania.

Labor was yesterday labelled ‘gutless’ and ‘dishonest’ by the leader of the Greens, an assessment nobody could argue with given Labor’s record of refusing to state their position on almost any important issue.

Issue 1 - Does Labor support the EOI process for sensible tourism proposals in our National Parks, World Heritage Area and Reserves?

Guy Barnett, Minister for Primary Industries and Water

Another key milestone has been achieved in Tasmanian Irrigation’s infrastructure program with construction of the new 5,200 megalitre Dalness Dam now complete. As a result, water is set to flow in the New Year from the new North Esk Irrigation Scheme.