A key part of our plan for a brighter future for Tasmania is to back Tasmania’s nearly 38,000 small businesses. If we increased employment in the small business sector by just one percent, we would create 1,000 desperately needed jobs. We’ve already announced a number of policies to support small businesses, like handing back the unfair [...]
Sirolli-ng in tax-payer cash
The $950,000 Sirolli program has been exposed as a failure with revelations* that almost a year after it was announced with much fanfare and flamboyance by David O’Byrne, it’s created only three jobs for just two years. Even more staggering, of the $950,000 of taxpayer’s money thrown at this program, a third of it has [...]
A Brighter Future: Libs move to secure International Shipping Service for Tasmania
A majority Liberal Government will move decisively to secure a brighter future for Tasmania’s economy, by ensuring the reintroduction of an international shipping service to Asia. Since August 2011, Tasmania has been without a direct international shipping service, and our exporters are now forced to ship goods via Melbourne before they can be shipped internationally. [...]