• Andrew Wilkie, The Budget & Tasmania: Federal disinterest meets State Government incompetence … … This budget is especially disappointing for Tasmania. There’s no money for the UTas STEM project, no money for light rail, no money for the new Bridgewater Bridge and no money for water infrastructure. Tonight’s budget goes to show that Canberra doesn’t really care about Tasmania, and that the Tasmanian State Government has failed miserably to do its job to make the case with its Liberal Party colleagues for much greater investment. …
• TasCOSS: Response to Federal Budget “What we were told was this was a budget about fairness, opportunity, and security but on first reading what we have found is that if you are Tasmanian, vulnerable or unwell then you can expect very little from your Federal Government – no fairness, less opportunity, little security …”
• AEU: Federal budget confirms devastating Gonski cuts to Tasmanian schools
• NUS: No fair go for young people; education gutted, welfare slashed
• Tasmanian University Union: Budget is a fair deal for students
• Peter Gutwein: No surprises budget welcomed
• Greens: Budget fails to address major economic challenges
• Light rail for Hobart: Federal Infrastructure Millions ‘Go Begging’ under Tasmanian Liberals
• Rebecca White: Liberals fail to fight for Tasmania’s fair share
• Rodney Croome: Advocates slam Budget nod to Plebiscite …
• Craig Farrell: Hodgman Government fails again to sway Canberra for crucial roads funding
• Cassy O’Connor: Federal Budget Fails Tasmania
• Ross Hart: Budget disappointment for Northern Tasmania
• Brian Mitchell: Lyons loses out in Budget 2017
• Scott Bacon: Budget fizzer for Tasmanian tourism
• AEU: Federal Government schools calculator reveals Tasmanian cuts and unfairness
• Helen Polley: Tasmanian Liberals have no influence in Canberra
• Andrea Dawkins: No Funds for Launceston Stormwater and Sewerage in Federal Budget
• Rosalie Woodruff: Tasmanian Health Forgotten in Federal Budget
• Cassy O’Connor: Federal Budget Funds Sexual Abuse Redress Scheme, State Must Follow
THE MEDIA’s verdict …
• Guardian, Federal budget 2017: Morrison hits banks with $6bn tax rise and promises ‘better days ahead’ • Treasurer funds NDIS and unveils plans to improve housing affordability. • High-tax, high-spend budget aims to bury Tony Abbott’s political legacy. • Budget summary at a glance: winners and losers
• First Dog on the Moon, Guardian: First Dog on the Moon’s big day at the 2017 budget Is it mean and tricky? Yes it is. It gives Scomo a lot of smoke and mirrors to work with – and drug-testing welfare recipients is pretty cold
• Mercury: Scant benefit for Tasmanian infrastructure projects in Federal Budget
• Fairfax: Federal budget 2017: winners and losers from public service workplace change
*Lindsay Tuffin has been a journo since 1969, mainly in Tassie apart from a few years elsewhere in Oz, and in Pomland where he had a brief stint as a youth worker and where for five years he edited ‘Buzz’ – a magazine dealing with church and social issues and which was beaten in audit circulation only by the Specialist Interest category of Aero Modeller magazine …!
