Economy
STATE: Boganland and Jacqui. Education lag. Greens’ poll surge. Marti row. Power.
POLITICS:
• Mercury: Jacqui Lambie hits back at ‘Boganland’ title, saying ‘I’m for the underdogs’
Extract:
PALMER United Party Senator-elect Jacqui Lambie has hit back at a senior colleague’s label of “Boganland”, describing herself as a champion of the underdogs who live in the real world.
In an email obtained by the Mercury, the PUP’s Queensland state MP Alex Douglas delivered an unflattering assessment of Australian battlers.
But Ms Lambie shrugged off the criticism, saying people who referred to others as bogans should get in the real world.
“Bogan is a derogatory term,” she told the Mercury yesterday.
“I am from the underdog world. Some people call them bogans, I call them underdogs.
“It is hard to keep getting up each day, trying to put food on the table, when there is no employment.”
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In an email to then Tasmanian PUP candidate Marti Zucco on September 27, Dr Douglas bemoaned the influence of “demanding” bogans.
“Bogans have … inherited the earth and the world is full of them demanding their right, in an odd way, to be heard,” Dr Douglas wrote.
“It is no longer satisfactory that they will just buy [and wear] Ugg boots, watch Big Brother, choke on a diet of grease, dye their bright purple [sic], tatoo [sic] and rejoice in their ignorance.”
The former Gold Coast GP went on to write that Ms Lambie was “from a world we see daily and quietly hope will disappear”.
“It won’t, and nor at present, will she,” he wrote.
“We have thought about it and will focus on training her, initially.”
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The email revelations followed a new EMRS poll released yesterday that showed the PUP had enjoyed a boost in popularity in Tasmania HERE
Polling showed support for the PUP up 4 percentage points from September to 5 per cent.
• Labor and Liberals slump in latest Tasmanian poll as Greens’ support surges
• Tasmanian Palmer party candidate Marti Zucco quits over dispute with Senator-elect Jacqui Lambie
• Tim Morris: Growth signs in Tasmanian economy
EDUCATION:
• Tasmania and the Northern Territory lagged well behind other states in all three areas.
POWER:
• Hydro Tasmania CEO’s payout under wraps
• Federal funding bid for King Island wind farm
• Christine Milne: Abbott stop gambling with Tasmania’s economic future