David Bartlett’s Government Communications Unit have been issuing media releases that carry the web address for the Team Bartlett website: teambartlett.com.au
The Communications Unit have their own website and used that website address on their releases in the past, but not during this election campaign. The Team Bartlett address that is now being used on government media releases includes Labor’s re-election slogan, Labor’s media releases, and has the following on the “Get Involved” page : “Join the ALP and become a member today.”
There is also an electronic form on the Get Involved page for aspiring Labor Party members to sign up. Despite the appalling pictures of David Bartlett with grim constituents, the Team Bartlett website is obviously a Labor Party re-election vehicle.
MWT would like to know why the media have not picked up on the Government Communications Unit using taxpayer resources to promote the Labor Party during an election campaign?
A Launceston resident wants to know why the media (especially the Launceston-based Examiner), have failed to mention that new Liberal Bass candidate Michelle McGinity actually lives and works in Hobart. Our resident says “check the White Pages if you don’t believe me”. MWT believes her.
Sue Neales wrote an interesting article for The Mercury about the young and good-looking Labor candidate Rebecca White this week, which sent us to Rebecca’s website. On that website Ms White’s biography page includes two facts:
1) that she grew up and went to school in Tasmania, and
2) that she “built her own home in the electorate”.
Ms White doesn’t look like a builder, in fact she’s very feminine and hot-as, so MWT would like to know if she really did “build her own home,” or whether other people built it while she paid, helped, or both?
A southern Council Worker asks if anyone is aware that Liberal Denison candidate and Hobart City Councillor Elise Archer has been given a parking permit for her car, a permit that allows her to park for free on parking meters and that is usually reserved for couriers. Council Worker also pointed out that Ms Archer works for a large law firm which has its own internal carpark.
Mr Levendale asks how it is that political parties can spout on about road safety, then park electronic signs, election posters, and cars carrying posters, on the side of every major highway? MWT wonders too.
A former prison guard would like to know why the media, especially The Mercury, have given Labor Corrections Minister Lisa Singh such an easy ride over the 8-week 23-hour-a-day lockdown of medium-security prisoners that occured because of a dispute about guard’s safety?
Ms Singh appears in The Mercury regularly, often using Risdon Prison as the backdrop for her positive media appearances, but our former guard says that the Risdon Prison lockdown was caused by the guards seeking better security after two of them were attacked and hospitalised by a group of prisoners using a constructed weapon.
The Department and Corrections Minister Singh refused a number of the guards’ requests for upgraded security, and so the 8-week lockdown took place. Ms Singh was one half of this 8-week dispute and failed to resolve it until after it became public, but just weeks before an election the media and especially The Mercury assigned 100% of the blame to the prison guards.
So why is Lisa Singh being praised for her role during the lockdown? How is it that she is allowed to use football players and guide dogs to gain positive media stories at the prison while a lengthy secretive lockdown was taking place? And why did the guards get the blame for standing up for their own personal safety?
