Media
Media appearances and press coverage featuring Ruth Forrest.
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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ABC Breakfast with Ryk Goddard
You can listen to my interview with Ryk Goddard on Hobart Breakfast here: [...]Read More... from ABC Breakfast with Ryk Goddard
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Special Interest Matters – Creative Paper Tasmania
Legislative Council, Tuesday 14 April 2026 Today during Special Interest Matters I spoke about Creative Paper Tasmania, a thriving tourism experience based in Wynyard. You can view my speech here:…
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ABC Mornings – Public Accounts Committee
You can listen to my interview with Leon Compton about this week’s PAC hearings here: [...]Read More... from ABC Mornings – Public Accounts Committee
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SPECIAL INTEREST MATTERS – Filmmaker Kirsten Slemint
Today I spoke in Parliament about Tasmanian science and natural history filmmaker, Kirsten Slemint. You can watch my speech here: [...]Read More... from SPECIAL INTEREST MATTERS – Filmmaker Kirsten Slemint
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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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Mental health in political life vital to democracy
The wellbeing of our elected representatives should not be hidden, if they are struggling then decision-making suffers. Politics is demanding work. Not just intellectually, but emotionally, psychologically, and personally. The…
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Why our Budget needs to confront reality, not continue to pretend we’re living in fantasy land
Fiscal Fiction and Waiting for a Miracle For years Tasmania has been governed by a budget process that seems designed not to confront reality but to defer it. The latest…
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Six Months In, Hydro’s “Subdued Year” Looks More Like a Storm Warning
When Hydro Tasmania’s Chair quietly warned of a “subdued year ahead” at last year’s GBE scrutiny hearings, most people probably heard it as corporate modesty – the kind of cautious…
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ABC Drive – 10 February 2026
You can listen to my latest interview on ABC Drive here: [...]Read More... from ABC Drive – 10 February 2026
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Productivity – what are we actually measuring?
Every few months, Tasmanian workers are treated to a familiar sermon. It usually comes from a business lobby, an employer group, or a CEO who has never staffed a ward,…
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Hydro Tasmania: What the Numbers Show – A multi-chapter analysis of operating performance, liquidity, structural risks, and public myths.
Now that Chapter 18 has been posted, the Hydro Explainer series has reached the end of its journey – at least for now. My thanks to everyone who has stayed…
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Newest Posts
- State Policies and Projects (Macquarie Point Precinct) Order 2025
- Parliament Misses Opportunity to Strengthen Budget Oversight as Fiscal Crisis Deepens
- Why I decided to accept the position of Treasurer if Tasmania has a Labor Minority government
- If you want to get to SurplusTown, would you start from here?
- Treasurer insists Tasmania is repairing its finances – but the Budget documents clearly tell another story
- ABC Breakfast with Ryk Goddard
- QWN – Whole-of-Government Taskforce
- QWN – Marinus Project Expert Advisory Panel Finding 6
- My Response to Minister Duigan’s opinion piece in The Mercury 29 April 2026
- ANZAC Day Address Wynyard Dawn Service 25 April 2026