Electorate Updates
News and information from Ruth about local projects, events, and issues affecting the electorate.
1 July 2026: Basslink Regulation Day – and What It Really Means
Today marks an historic threshold in Tasmania’s energy story. From 1 July 2026, Basslink – for two decades an unregulated private interconnector – becomes a fully regulated transmission asset controlled…
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Marinus: From Export Dream to Import Reality
The Minister’s recent Talking Point (The Mercury 29th June) and attached as a screen shot below, attempts to recast Project Marinus as a source of “flexibility”, “resilience” and “capability”. These…
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McKinnon Prize, State and Territory Political Leader – Judge’s Commendation
I am truly honoured to have been nominated and a finalist in the McKinnon State/Territory Policial Leadership award for 2026 and to receive a judges commendation. I acknowledge the category…
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An Update: The Protection and Integrity of Parliamentary Correspondence
I wrote to the Premier on 3 June 2026 seeking clear and direct answers regarding the leaking of an email sent on my behalf as Chair of Estimates Committee A,…
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Extract from ESTIMATES COMMITTEE A – Hon. Kerry Vincent MLC
Infrastructure and Transport Services LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Thursday 4 June 2026 CHAIR – Minister, I could have perhaps asked this in 2.1, but I thought I’d save it for capital investment.…
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Tasmanian Budget is built on a ‘miraculous’ Hydro Tasmania profit surge
The Truth behind Tasmania’s Budget. For years Treasury has warned that Tasmania is heading toward a fiscal abyss and that only a balanced mix of restraint, revenue measures and structural…
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Treasurer insists Tasmania is repairing its finances – but the Budget documents clearly tell another story
Hope is not a fiscal strategy for our States’ Long-term future Every budget tells two stories. There is the story the Treasurer reads aloud in Parliament – polished, confident, reassuring.…
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My Response to Minister Duigan’s opinion piece in The Mercury 29 April 2026
The Record Speaks for Itself: A Response to Minister Duigan Minister Duigan has again used the Mercury’s opinion pages to characterise my comments and critique of Marinus Link as misinformation.…
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ANZAC Day Address Wynyard Dawn Service 25 April 2026
We gather here this morning in the quiet that ANZAC Day always asks of us. Not just with quiet voices – but quiet hearts. A stillness that lets the past…
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The story of easy money flowing from Hydro exports needs far greater attention and scrutiny
For years, Tasmanians have been told a simple story about our energy future: build more interconnection, export more power, and share in the benefits of stronger mainland demand and higher…
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We can’t wait any longer to fight our debt problem
Tasmania’s Fiscal Crisis Demands More Than Politics as Usual On 27 February 2026, Treasury released a document that should have concerned every Tasmanian. The Fiscal Sustainability Report, prepared by Treasury…
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House rules, and how game is rigged
Intergenerational Inequity Isn’t a Mystery – It’s a Design Feature Every few months, another report laments the widening gulf between young and old. Commentators wring their hands about falling home…
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- 1 July 2026: Basslink Regulation Day – and What It Really Means
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