A full list of Liberal Party candidates for the 2024 House of Assembly has now been published on the party’s website.
The candidates are (in no particular order) named below. Those with an asterisk are sitting members, noting also that Jane Howlett is currently MLC for Prosser and is attempting a move to the Lower House.
Bass
Rob Fairs
* Michael Ferguson
Chris Gatenby
Sarah Quaile
Julie Sladden
Richard Trethewie
* Simon Wood
Braddon
* Jeremy Rockliff
* Felix Ellis
Patrick Fabian
* Roger Jaensch
Sarina Laidler
Vonette Mead
Giovanna Simpson
Clark
Mohammad Aldergham
Emma Atterbury
* Simon Behrakis
Jon Gourlay
* Madeleine Ogilvie
Catherine Searle
Marcus Vermey
Franklin
Eric Abetz
Aldo Antolli
Josh Garvin
Jock McGregor
Jacquie Petrusma
* Nic Street
* Dean Young
Lyons
* Guy Barnett
Gregory Brown
Stephanie Cameron
Justin Derksen
Richard Hallett
Jane Howlett
* Mark Shelton
Media release – Dean Winter, Shadow Minister for Economic Development, 20 February 2024
Liberal candidates more of the same from tired government
The Liberals’ list of candidates for the state election is more evidence of a party that is out of touch and out of ideas after 10 years in government.
Among the candidates is Justin Derksen in the seat of Lyons, whose brother was secretly offered a $1.2 million grant for the New Norfolk Distillery by Jeremy Rockliff, with no process.
It was withdrawn once it became public.
The Liberals are also recycling Eric Abetz and the failed former Human Services Minister Jacquie Petrusma, along with climate change denier Aldo Antolli, anti-vaxxer Julie Sladden, and yet another television personality Rob Fairs.
The Liberals’ northern team now looks more like Ron Burgundy’s news team than serious or competent representatives.
They are also pushing ahead with Jane Howlett who may be under investigation by the Integrity Commission – with the Premier still refusing to tell Tasmanians if this is the case.
The Liberals are also running Giovanna Simpson in Braddon – who was most recently associated with the Jacqui Lambie Network, which the Liberals have spent the past few days attacking.
If this is the ‘Tasmanian Liberal Party’s Team of the Decade’, as Jeremy Rockliff has called it, what a truly disappointing decade it’s been.
After the past decade of Liberal Government, Tasmanians want urgent action on the cost of living, they want to pay Tasmanian prices for Tasmanian power, they want a plan to set Tasmania up for the future and they want a government that cares about them.
It’s time for a better future for Tasmania and the Labor team is focussed on delivering just that.
Kingborough Councillor Antolli: “I am not a believer in anthropogenic climate change.”
