Media release – Josh Willie MP, Labor Member for Clark, 24 April 2024
If it looks like a deal and sounds like a deal, it’s a deal
Earlier this month, Kristie Johnston told media “I don’t do deals, my vote is not for sale”.
Today, she changed her tune – releasing a list of requests she put forward before giving her commitment to provide confidence and supply to prop up Jeremy Rockliff’s minority government.
If it looks like a deal and sounds like a deal, it’s a deal.
But it appears that instead of asking for outcomes for the electorate, Ms Johnston’s requests were for among other things: more staff just for herself, meeting rooms, new offices in parliament and the electorate, and a carpark.
Labor respects the parliament that Tasmanians elected.
Now both Ms Johnston and Mr O’Byrne have indicated their support for a Liberal government, it will be interesting to see how long it lasts if the Rockliff Liberal Government fails to perform or uphold its commitments.
Roderick
April 25, 2024 at 01:53
” … Labor respects the parliament that Tasmanians elected.” Do you mean the Greens, the JLN, David O Byrne, Craig Garland, and the Liberals? So may I assume you respect Kristie Johnston and that Liberal ‘light on the hill’, Eric Abetz?
I respect Legislative Councillors Ruth Forrest and Meg Webb. So Josh Willie, do you respect the AFL stadium proposal, increased native forests destruction, penned and polluting salmon corporations, foreign polluting mining corporations, gambling monopolies, TasNetworks’ proposed transmission line for a foreign corporate wind farm?
Do you respect Mr Cangelosi? I Remember him a recent resignation from your party and one of several in recent times. I will not vote for Liberal or Labor candidates in the Legislative Council elections, and the sooner Tasmanians vote for real independents the better, in order to break the stranglehold of the two major, or minor, right-wing parties.
Ben Marshall
April 25, 2024 at 08:11
The irony of this snide and gratuitous attack by Josh Willie is that it will be he and his party who provide the greatest certainty and support for our rotten, just returned Liberal government. Labor is in full lock-step with the business sect – sorry, the Liberal-Newscorp alliance, in handing our state to corporate investors from around the world with little to no benefit to Tasmanians while imposing a massive cost burden on us, and our remaining wild forests and marine habitats.
Labor, with Paul Lennon still apparently at the helm, will continue to fail Tasmanians by looking increasingly for support from donors and corporate mates, and shouting ‘jobs and growth’ at any who dare ask them for actual policy frameworks. Labor will continue to loudly back the extractive, destructive and unsustainable exploitation of our people, our rivers, our oceans, our forests and our National Parks – indeed everything that the Liberal Party and its mates want.
Labor will continue to ignore climate change while demanding foreign investors be supported while taking and shipping away our wind energy. It will continue to back money laundering through gambling .. and damn the horses, dogs and mug punters. Labor will continue to back the Butchers from Brazil, and any other company which wants to pollute our estuaries and coastlines for unhealthy farmed salmon. Etcetera et-bloody-cetera.
As Labor moves further to the hard Right from Rebecca White’s Centre-Right lite stance, the only difference between TasLabor and Liberal is the latter’s control by the ultra-religious far Right. In Josh Willie’s phrasing, if it looks like a Liberal, and talks like a Liberal, it’s probably a Labor politician.
Look to your own house, Mr Willie. Look to your own conscience.
Roderick
April 26, 2024 at 02:07
Many decades ago David Suzuki said that in the future we humans will have to learn to live with less because this planet will be unable to support the burgeoning population. He also said that governments’ obsession with growth is a folly. Those were not his exact words.
Back in the 1980s, USA citizen, musician and singer Tom Waits was interviewed in the back of his black Cadillac limousine, and he was asked what he thought of global pollution. Tom said he thought the world was one big living creature, and that one day it will rear up and scratch us off its back.
When I saw USA performance artist, Laurie Anderson, at the famous Paradiso in Amsterdam in 1981, she said “Paradise is where you are right now, only much, much better.” So where does that leave Tasmania?
Tasmania is rigidly stuck in a corrupt and insensible colonial convict past. I always hoped my home state would wake up, change, renew itself and become what it could be .. a real, clean and green island, and an exemplar for the rest of the world. Fat chance of that happening!
To paraphrase – truth, justice and the Tasmanian way. Now where did I leave that guillotine?