Politics
GOVERNMENT RUNS OUT OF BUSINESS – FIRST DAY BACK!
Waste of Taxpayers’ Money as Labor Resorts to Filibustering
The Tasmanian Greens today accused the Bartlett government of running out of business at 4pm on the first day of a parliamentary sitting and of wasting tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars by padding out the parliamentary day with spurious motions.
Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that it is symptomatic of a tired government which lacks a policy agenda, and offered Greens legislation to fill up the slack left by Labor’s lack of vision for Tasmania’s future.
“If the government cannot run the House of Assembly, how can it govern Tasmania?”
“This is the first day back after a four week recess, and incredibly the government has run out of legislation and is happily wasting taxpayer’s money by padding out the day until the 6pm adjournment.”
“The Greens currently have at least six pieces of legislation ready to debate, and if the government has run out of Parliamentary business we are more than happy to take up the slack,” Mr McKim said.
Nick McKim MP Greens Leader