A desperate Labor Government despised by a majority of Tasmanians has now been left with only one strategy and one hope to hold on to power … buy the election.
Throw cash anywhere and everywhere.
Expect to see money thrown at hospitals, schools, citizen circuses, supplicants everywhere in the weeks leading up to the election.
The Public Service backflip ( Bartlett to boost Public Service: HERE) is just the start.
But the question must be asked … where’s the money coming from?
There would seem to be two answers to that. One is that GST revenues are up on government projections — with the national economy doing better than expected.
Or it may be a desperate move similar to the Gray Government in its dying days in the late 1980s; the Bartlett Government and its myriad lackeys and minders prepared to take the state close to bankruptcy in order to preserve their own power and privilege.
Bartlett backflips cost $5m a day
Tuesday, Dec 22, Mercury: Funding injection for North-West
