Will Hodgman: Delivering Our 100 Day Plan

The Liberal Government is delivering what we promised.

Returning to Government after 16-years of opposition is a great honour and a great responsibility for the Liberal Party.

We are getting on with the job of implementing our plan and progressively delivering what we said we would:

• Getting the economy moving by: Implementing a permanent headworks holiday; supporting local and small business through a local benefits test and local industry participation plans; and extending the payroll tax rebate for new jobs for another year;

• Securing the consolidation of the Qantas’ contact centre operations saving 250 jobs; and after seven long years of inaction, we’ve facilitated the start of the Myer development;

• We have introduced Legislation to rip up the job-destroying forest deal, which has passed the House of Assembly and we are seeing signs of growth in our vital forest industry again;

• We’ve commenced the roll-out of our long-term plan to improve education outcomes and productivity by extending high schools to year 11 and 12;

• We’ve started the process of reforming the planning system so that we can get development happening again in this state. We’ve assembled the Tasmanian Planning Review Taskforce, which will recommend a single state-wide planning scheme;

• We’re delivering our ambitious tourism agenda; Tourism Tasmania will operate as a State Authority from July 1; we’ve refocussed the TT-Line on passengers and tourists, while clearing the way for the private sector to step in to address the freight challenge; and this weekend we will formally kick-off the process seeking expressions of interest for tourism investment in our national parks;

All the while we’ve been dealing with the skeletons left to us by the Labor-Green Government; the Royal Hobart Hospital debacle, a $1.1 billion budget black-hole and the 1,000 additional job cuts embedded in their last budget.

But we went to the election with a clear agenda to grow the economy and create jobs. The Tasmanian people overwhelmingly endorsed this. Now, we are getting on with the job we were elected to do.

The First 100 Days Scorecard: http://www.premier.tas.gov.au/first100days

Will Hodgman, Premier