All posts tagged "state budget"

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  Stadium Plan Financially Reckless & Lacks Support

  Community advocate Christine Bayley argues the Tasmanian stadium project is fiscally reckless, lacks public support and ignores the original AFL Taskforce’s calls...

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  TasTAFE Cuts Collide With Million-Dollar Arts Funding

  TasTAFE’s plan to eliminate courses in visual arts, music, design and media—along with the highly skilled staff who run them—has been slammed...

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  New Bill Targets Budget Deficit, Demands Fiscal Accountability

  Bill Introduced to Strengthen Budget Accountability Ruth Forrest MLC, 23 September 2025 Independent Member for Murchison, Hon Ruth Forrest MLC, has today...

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  Josh Willie Elected New Leader of Tasmanian Labor

  After the Labor party officially conceded defeat in the recent state election, the leadership of the Tasmanian Labor Party was spilled 20...

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  Proposed No-Confidence Motion Divides Parliament

  A potential no-confidence motion (in Premier Jeremy Rockliff) is dividing the Tasmanian Parliament, as the Greens have stated they will not support...

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  Forrest Urges Independents to Demand Budget Framework Fix

  As I have been contemplating the election outcome and seeking a new and different way of governing Tasmania, I started writing this...

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  Inside POSS, State Growths Attempts to Limit Financial Scrutiny of Stadium

  Economist Dr Graeme Wells observes how the Department of State Growth used the PoSS hearings to try to minimise scrutiny of the...

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  If You Want to Get to SurplusTown, Would You Start From Here?

  Ruth Forrest MLC claims our politicians are downplaying a severe fiscal crisis and she calls for honest leadership, fiscal discipline and a...

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  Parking Hell! Stadium Blows Out Another $100M

  The price tag for the Macquarie Point stadium project has gone up by nearly $100 million, according to new information provided to...

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  Election Round Up – 19 Days Out

  As the state election nears, candidates and parties are focusing on a range of issues. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service (TALS) is...