12 November 2024
Tasmania’s salmon industry workers are still not reassured that their futures are secure, as the Albanese Government attempts to distract away from the fact that two reviews enforced on our community by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek could still spell the end of their livelihoods at any minute.
Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Jonno Duniam says the funding announcement is cold comfort for Tasmanians: “this latest funding gesture makes Tanya Plibersek’s EDO-initiated review even more redundant.”
“This is not a solution to the uncertainty salmon workers face today, it is an extension of a process that Canberra has forced on our workers that has gone on for far too long.”
“The Government have announced new candidates for Braddon or Lyons, but it’s still the same old Labor. They are doing nothing for the community of Strahan and all West Coast families that have had their lives flipped upside down by a Sydney-based Minister that still has her two reviews hanging over their heads.”
“Anthony Albanese needs to match the Liberals’ commitment that salmon farming will continue no matter the outcome of the next federal election. Anything less is a copout.”
Liberal Senator Richard Colbeck:
“The selection of new candidates does not change the fact that it was the Federal Labor Government that initiated this pain on our community, nor does it change the outlook for Tasmanian salmon workers and their families who still have a cloud of uncertainty hanging over their heads.”
“Tanya Plibersek caved to Green-activist groups to protect metro seats on the mainland but at the same time, she has put Tasmanian jobs on the chopping block. If Labor members and candidates cared about the prospects of local workers, they would end the EPBC review immediately.”
“Salmon workers in Tasmania deserve to go to Christmas without uncertainty hanging over their heads. Labor got Tasmania into this mess, they need to make the right decision to get us out of it.”