I welcome the long overdue announcement that the Mussleroe wind farm is one step closer to being built. The Mussleroe development is good news for a region that has faced a number of challenges in recent times including a downturn in the forest industry and the threat of school closures. The development represents one of [...]
North East Rivers Festival & homelessness in Launceston
I thought I would tell Parliament what I got up to between last week’s sitting and this week’s, because of course last Thursday was a day off for the southerners. The northerners quite properly went back to work, just not in the company of parliament.
Scottsdale community forgotten by Labor
It is extremely disappointing that having caused the loss of softwood resource, the Labor-Green Government has done absolutely nothing to genuinely support the Scottsdale community, as the last major sawmill in the region closes. This Government has been failing the north-east for 12 years now and federal Labor is complicit in this sad situation too. [...]
Has the Government forgotten about a place called the North East?
In the wake of looming job losses, business closures and the recent flood crisis, the Labor-Green Government has remained completely silent as the people of the North East of the state continue to suffer. It is becoming increasingly clear that this Government has totally and utterly failed to listen to the people of the North [...]
Standing up against Scottsdale job losses
The closure in four months of the Scottsdale sawmill is very devastating news to my electorate of Bass and the people of that community, for whom I feel very strongly. At least 85 jobs are at stake but it could be as many as 135 jobs that are lost in total. The closure is not [...]
