Fucking disgraceful Dean whinging about a budget overspend then declaring he won't work with the Greens making us waste more money running another election.
That explains the YouTube short from the ABC? which came across my feed earlier today.
Their coverage is woeful as always, is there a succinct summary of what’s happening for those of us outside Tasmania?
My guess is related to building a stadium for an expansion AFL team.
The stadium is a Lightning rod issue, but it is far from the only one.
Briefly we have had a Liberal government that is terrible at organisation and makes deals based upon cronyism, nepotism and or incompetence.
The state government has demonstrated that they are largely incapable of delivering any projects on budget and lack forward planning capability. For example two new high speed ferries were commissioned to connect Tasmania and Victoria to accomodate post COVID tourism increases. These ferries were constructed in Finland and were ready before the facilities required to berth them here in Tasmania, this has meant that we have had to pay a port in Scotland to hold on to them until we can get our side of things ready.
We have had a number of crises in our Public Health and hospital systems leading to extended delays for people seeking both emergency and planned treatment.
When it became obvious that the State government was unable to balance a budget they opted to institute a Public Service hiring freeze. Talked about instituting a government body to emulate the stated goals of DOGE.
The stadium is possibly the most politicised matter, our previous Premier got super focussed on getting a Tasmanian AFL team. After a lot of big talk AFL provided a pathway that a lot of people felt was demonstrative of them not wanting a Tasmanian team to go ahead, setting a requirement that a new stadium be constructed in a difficult/impossible location, with conditions that would potentially exclude its use for other sport and event types, with the state largely being the ones to bankroll a project that had a hopelessly optimistic budget.
Since there has been a yearning for an AFL team in Tasmania for a very long time the government and AFL are leveraging this to get people to back the stadium regardless of it's feasibility.
All of this came to a head when the Liberals released a budget that would increase state debt to more than $10 billion by 2029. This would be a trigger for a bunch of state assets being put up for sale.
So the Labor Party leader pushed for a No Confidence vote, which has been successfull. By convention the Premier is expected to resign once a No Confidence motion has passed, but Jeremy Rlockliffe has opted to instead fight this by calling an election.
Now I really shouldn't have started typing all this up at 4an. I'm going back to bed. Good night.
Good morning, and thanks for this, we don't get a lot of Tassie news on the mainland, especially we miss any nuance
I appreciate the write-up, friend. Thanks :)
Echoing everyone else’s sentiments in saying thank you for the write-up - we really don’t get enough Tas-specific news here, even just across the strait!
What do you think is the likelihood of Labor winning a majority/minority Government as a result of a potential snap election?
I apologise if my summary is too biased/inaccurate, tried my best to be as impartial and factual as I could while falling asleep on my phone at 4am.
Honestly not sure what to expect if a snap election is called, we can be a funny populace to call and a snap election leaves little time for political messaging to percolate, but also a commensurately short time to combat any poor messaging that gains a foothold.
I think Dean Winters (the Labor leader) may be unpopular enough to cause Labor some grief at the ballot box, but the Liberals fumbling is going to give the party a small lift. Labors stance that they won't partner with the Greens will also cause them some grief.
I personally think independent stand the most to gain and will hold balance of power in whatever minority government gets through.
Gun to my head - Labor minority.
Just after the controversy with the Launceston Mayor and the Falling In Reverse guy
Yeah that's a situation alright.
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