Wilkie to question PM on anti-Tasmanian contracting

The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will ask the Prime Minister the following in Question Time today.

“Prime Minister, Federal Government departments are increasingly entering into single contracts with national suppliers, at the expense of smaller Tasmanian companies hoping to supply goods and services exclusively or principally in Tasmania.

“The result of this discriminatory contracting is often substandard and expensive goods and services, because Tasmania is obviously a unique regional and rural market physically dislocated from the mainland. Quite simply, Tasmania is entirely unfamiliar to many national suppliers who don’t even have a presence there.

“Prime Minister, will you review this matter so that Australians relying on Federal Government agencies located in Tasmania, and Tasmanians relying on local Federal Government services, start getting a better deal?”

WHEN: Approximately 2:15pm TODAY 26 June
WHERE: House of Representatives (watch live at https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Parliament)

Authorised by Andrew Wilkie MP 188 Collins St Hobart
Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie