Treasury

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader

The TCCI’s Tasmania Report confirms the need to capitalise on the State’s visitor boom to pay for the disadvantage it helps to create.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader and Treasury spokesperson

The Liberals have nobody but themselves to blame for the industrial unrest set to grip the State.

They have treated the State’s 29 000 public sector workers with such disregard, union members are undertaking rolling industrial action across Tasmania.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens' Leader

The Productivity Commission draft report into Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation proposes changes that would significantly and unacceptably disadvantage Tasmania.

The Greens stand with the Liberals and Labor in vehemently opposing any change to HFE that hurts this State and its people.

Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens' Leader and Treasury spokesperson

The Treasurer’s responses in Budget Estimates today were basically limited to pleas to just trust him.

On the TasWater takeover, the Treasurer disagreed with claims that the accelerated schedule could not be achieved and that the takeover might be unlawful, but provided no evidence to back up his view.

To support these claims he repeatedly argued he had come to that view, without providing any detail of what rationale or evidence had led him there. 

Cassy O'Connor MP | Greens Leader and Treasury spokesperson

The latest NAB State Update for Tasmania makes sobering reading.  It's a grim reality check for the Hodgman Government, which may explain the Treasurer’s silence on its release.

NAB points to the reality of continued structural decline in the Forestry sector, highlighting the futility of the Liberals’ attempt to put Forestry Tasmania on a financially sustainable footing.