Tamar River Siltation – strangely it turned into a debate with the Greens!
Mr FERGUSON (Bass) – Prior to the March election the Labor Party promised to provide $6.5 million in funding to deal with what is now a massive silt build-up at Home Reach and in the yacht basin in the Tamar estuary. By June of this year this promise had entirely disappeared.
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Budget Estimates: Labor con-job on our LGH
During my election campaign, I promised to stand up for our hospital. So, last week in Budget Estimates hearings, I took the opportunity to call in on Committee A and substituted myself in – so I could put some important questions to the health minister regarding our LGH. She wasn’t very impressed that I did so, and made a performance of herself in answering… even trivialising the matter with disparaging comments that the questions were only about getting ‘some media’! I was underwhelmed.
read more$$$how me the Money – my response to the 2010-11 State Budget
Mr FERGUSON (Bass) – I want to give a response to this Budget from my point of view.
read morePosition vacant: government with integrity
I’ve just driven back up North from two days in Hobart. Getting familiar with the Tasmanian Parliament and setting up for the time ahead.
While driving, I listened to the live broadcast of the caretaker Premier Bartlett breathing his pathetic attempt to argue that somehow Will Hodgman had “failed to form a government” despite Labor’s supposed best efforts to facilitate the change.
read moreWaverley community has been conned
The Bartlett Labor government has failed to properly consult and respect the wishes of the Waverley Primary School community in its rush to merge the school with St Leonards Primary School.
I have been contacted by several parents of WPS students who are angry at the way the merger has been promoted and so-called ‘ballots’ counted.
Clearly, counting unreturned ballots as a ‘yes’ vote is a rort.
read moreLabor is taking Tasmania in the wrong direction: statement from Will Hodman
- Government cutting funding for Lifeline, hospital jobs and maybe even the Flying Doctors
- The Government should start by cutting waste, like spin doctors and advisers before it attacks public services
- Government is putting itself first, rather than the interests of Tasmanians
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