Bryan Green’s views on the future of the Triabunna Wharf seem to change with the front page of the newspaper.
Mr Green has been all over the place on Triabunna.*
As Minister he stood by when the mill was sold and dismantled, leaving the wharf landlocked.
Last year, he argued: “If the whole development is going to go ahead, it (the Triabunna Wharf) ought to be properly long-term leased or sold to Graeme Wood.”
Now he says the wharf should be given to the forest industry that he helped destroy.
The Labor leader takes the cake for engaging in cynical, hypocritical politics and should be called on his wishy-washy position on the Triabunna Wharf.
TasPorts conducted the sale process independent of Government, and I am advised the company engaged a probity adviser to ensure it was undertaken with the highest degree of diligence and integrity.
Mr Green must know that the interstate bid that he has been waving around included a raft of unrelated conditions, including the eventual outcome of other Government processes.
I am advised this bid was an unsubstantiated offer with untenable conditions, making it practically undeliverable.
That the Labor leader would argue that the Government should have interfered in that sale process to favour any bid, let alone one that we now know rated poorly against assessment criteria, is alarming and reflects poorly on his own Ministerial standards.
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dv_lo0I7_w&feature=youtu.be
Rene Hidding, Minister for Infrastructure
