30 November 2023 In officially making a decision to begin consultation on an EPBC Act decision made under the Gillard Government over a decade ago to allow salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour, Tanya Plibersek has caved to three activist organisations: the Bob Brown Foundation, Australia Institute, and Albanese Government-funded Environmental Defenders Office. This is rather [...]
16 November 2023 Under the cover of a Federal infrastructure review, the Albanese Government has pulled out from under the rug Coalition funding arrangements that saw Tasmania win big on Commonwealth money. While cutting $16 million to the Old Surrey Road and Massy-Greene Drive project near Burnie, a project that local Labor Senator Anne Urquhart [...]
11 November 2023 The selling out of regional Tassie jobs to gain inner-city votes and appease agenda-fuelled groups couldn’t be a more obvious backdrop for the Albanese Government posturing to dump the salmon industry. The Environment Minister’s revisit of an EPBC Act decision made under Labor Government over a decade ago is based on the [...]
10 November 2023 The Federal Government’s bleak record on infrastructure funding is being compounded by the failure of local Tasmania Labor Assistant Minister for Infrastructure Carol Brown to retain Federal funding that is already allocated to our state. The months-delayed infrastructure review sees the Albanese Government’s razor gang examine how many millions of dollars to [...]
25 October 2023 Senator Murray Watt’s impotence as a Cabinet Minister and indifference for stakeholders even in his own portfolios has crashed to a new low following a Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra. Asked a succession of questions late on Tuesday about the Albanese Government’s cave-in to UNESCO’s demand to install a ban on gillnet [...]
24 October 2023 Labor’s planned Indigenous cultural heritage laws are in tatters following explosive revelations at Senate Estimates that the reforms have been delayed indefinitely. In the evening session of the Senate Environment and Communications Estimates hearing on Monday, representatives from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water admitted that it was “unclear” [...]
13 October 2023 Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is miles off her own deadlines to reform the EPBC Act and has not genuinely engaged with the Opposition, putting at risk any meaningful passage of the legislation. Minister Plibersek recently spoke with a regional media outlet to state that the first consultation on EPBC Act changes will [...]
4 October 2023 The Albanese Government has serious and urgent questions to answer about the mismanagement of funding for Antarctic science and research, following a series of concerning revelations at the first day of Senate inquiry hearings in Hobart today. Today’s evidence was headlined by comments from the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) that [...]
3 October 2023 With Anthony Albanese and his cabinet in Tasmania today, here are 10 things that the Labor Government should focus on: Exempting Macquarie Point stadium from GST calculations Backing in all Coalition projects that are in doubt from the 90 day infrastructure project review Guaranteeing the West Coast salmon industry’s future Ap