Electorate Updates
News and information from Ruth about local projects, events, and issues affecting the electorate.
Response to Article in Weekend Australian re Marinus
This article in The Weekend Australian is timely and also informative. Sadly during the recent election it seemed the major parties didn’t want to talk about this huge project, Marinus…
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Post Election Update No.1 – Letter to fellow Independent Members
As I have been contemplating the election outcome and seeking a new and different way of governing Tasmania, I started writing this update which seemed more appropriate to do I…
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Election Update No 18: Where to now?
As election day fast approaches we need an agreed non-partisan approach to restoring trust and addressing our challenges - where to now? [...]Read More... from Election Update No 18: Where…
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Election Update No 17: Hydro Tasmania and Marinus
One of the important components of own source revenue, after state taxes, are returns from government businesses. These contribute between 3 and 5 per cent of total revenue, a relatively…
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Election Update No 16: Marinus Decision Time: Tasmania Can’t Afford to Get It Wrong
As Tasmanians head to the polls and many voting early, we do so with strikingly little clarity about the future of our energy system. And nowhere is that more alarming…
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Election Update No 15: The pathway to surplus
There’s a slither of hope, a small shaft on sunlight trying to shine on an otherwise bleak election battleground, that when the dusts settles, the survivors – I won’t call…
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Election Update number 14: The Liberal Fiscal Strategy
The Premier released his long awaited Fiscal Strategy yesterday. If credit ratings agencies stumble on a copy we’re bound to be downgraded. It doesn’t comply with the Act. There are…
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Election Update number 13: Revenue: the taboo topic
When Kerry Packer told a Parliamentary Committee back in 1991 that he did everything possible to ensure he paid a little tax as possible “….because as a government, I can…
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Election Update number 12: Labor’s fiscal strategy and beyond
If I’d known where the election campaign was to lead I would have titled these posts: Dispatches from the War Zone. For that’s what it has become. If one thing…
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Election update number 11: PEFO what it means for the election campaign
It’s official. The government will have to cobble together a new fiscal strategy by Thursday 3rd July. There was a fiscal strategy included in the proposed 25/26 Budget but those…
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Election update number 10: Pre-Election Budget Warning
The purpose of this update is to put the recently released Pre-Election Outlook (PEFO) report into context. What is the purpose of PEFO and why did Treasury issue it in…
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Election Update number 9: Pre Election Financial Outlook (PEFO)
Following the release of Treasury’s Pre Election Financial Outlook yesterday it is vital all Tasmanians understand the scale of the budget problem we have and what needs to be done. The…
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