Kim Booth’s latest attack on Tasmanian sawmillers stinks of gutter politics at its absolute worst.
The Greens Leader was in the same room when I announced this program in December and after four months without a peep he’s all of a sudden decided to play politics with jobs.
Kim Booth’s party colleagues sat in the former Labor-Green cabinet and signed off on a program to buy sawmillers out and force them out of a job.
Our program gives sawmillers the choice to stay in and at the same time it is costing less than what Labor and the Greens wanted to pay to close them down.
We are confident our process is sound and appropriate – can Kim Booth say the same about Gunns’ $23 million dollar payout which he voted for and which was authorised by his Green colleagues Nick McKim and Cassy O’Connor?
Paul Harriss, Minister for Resources
