Anita Dow MP, Shadow Minister for Industry & Regional Development, 22 May 2024
Liberal-Lambie Coalition split as JLN votes against regional jobs
It didn’t take long for the JLN to show their true colours, voting against regional jobs as the Liberal-Lambie coalition split in its first parliamentary test.
Before the election, Jeremy Rockliff told Tasmanians they shouldn’t risk having the JLN in a coalition government, saying it would “crash our economy, crash jobs, and crash our health system”.
It looks like he was on the money.
Rosalie Woodruff said it all when she said the Greens “100 per cent concurred” with the JLN’s comments regarding Tasmania’s key regional industries.
That comment alone should send a shudder down the spines of every business in Tasmania relying on the Liberal-Lambie Coalition for much needed certainty.
Editor’s note: the motion was as follows –
Mr Winter to move—That the House expresses its unequivocal support for key industries, including:—
(a) Tasmania’s aquaculture industry, including operations in Macquarie Harbour;
(b) Tasmania’s timber industry;
(c) Renewable energy developments, including the Robbins Island windfarm; and
(d) Tasmania’s mining industry. (21 May 2024)
Media release – Bob Brown Foundation, 22 May 2024
Tasmania’s Liberal Labor coalition will destroy the island’s wildness
The Tasmanian Labor party has today proven their priority is not our health, education, environment or climate action but entrenching ongoing destruction of our island’s wild places and wildlife.
“Today’s Tasmanian parliamentary motion by the ALP, supported by the Liberal government, is shocking because it is supporting ongoing native forest logging, mining, toxic salmon pollution and endangered species killing in an age of climate and biodiversity crises. It is a terrible shame to see more of the same support for environmental and climate destruction that Tasmania’s government has embedded in our island state,” said Jenny Weber, Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaigns Manager.
“Once again, Labor is showing that it is the big salmon companies that own them. Never mind that their federal counterparts have promised no new extinctions, Tasmanian Labor is tripping over itself to wipe the Maugean skate off the face of the Earth. In the election, the Jacquie Lambie Network said there are issues with salmon farming that have to be addressed. They must stick to that statement and stand up against the extinction-causing parties of Labor and Liberal,” said Alistair Allan, Bob Brown Foundation’s Marine Campaigner.
Ben Marshall
May 23, 2024 at 17:00
Bravo for the Jacquie Lambie Network taking a stance against the Liberal-Labor Coalition’s utterly cynical and corrupt support of exploitation by foreign investors like the Butchers from Brazil, the Filipino Billionaires backing Robbins Island, the Chinese polluters of the Tarkine, and the pulp “industry” destroying vast swathes of Tasmanian wilderness habitat at our expense.
Dow’s strident bleating, in sync with Dean ‘Dave’ Winter and their puppet-master Paul Lennon, rings utterly hollow, as she supports unsustainable, destructive extractive industries that produce fewer jobs every year as they cost taxpayers ever more.
TasLabor in its current form, working tirelessly for the corporate sector, looks increasingly pointless – other than to support the Liberal State government’s war on the environment and its corporate donors.