Media
Media appearances and press coverage featuring Ruth Forrest.
IF THE PREMIER BELIEVES MARINUS WILL DELIVER $470M A YEAR, HE SHOULD PUBLISH MODELLING AND SHOW THE FLOWS
THE STATE GOVERNMENT’S NARRATIVE ON MARINUS LINK IS DRIFTING FURTHER FROM ECONOMIC REALITY Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s New Year message celebrates Tasmania’s economic strength and the confidence that underpins it. Confidence,…
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ABC Mornings with Leon Compton – 12 December 2025
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ABC Mornings – Wisdom of the Years
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Moody’s Downgrades Tasmania’s Credit Rating to Aa3
Moody’s Ratings has downgraded Tasmania’s credit rating from Aa2 to Aa3, citing a sharp and sustained increase in the state’s debt and interest burdens that has weakened Tasmania’s financial strength.…
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Tasmania’s Housing Crisis: When the Numbers Don’t Add Up
The Tasmanian Government proudly declares it’s on track to deliver 10,000 new affordable homes by 2032. Strip away the glossy headlines and what remains is a hollow boast built on…
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Tasmania’s Budget: Smoke, Mirrors, and a $20 Billion Debt Mountain
When Treasurer Eric Abetz delivered Tasmania’s 2025-26 State Budget promising “brightness and optimism,” both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s have not changed Tasmania’s outlook from Negative. When both credit rating…
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ABC Mornings – Debt in Government Business Enterprises
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Parliament Misses Opportunity to Strengthen Budget Oversight as Fiscal Crisis Deepens
Media Release – 4 November 2025 Member for Murchison, Hon Ruth Forrest MLC expressed her disappointment by rejection of accountability reforms despite widespread concern over State’s finances A Bill to…
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Special Interest Matters – West Coast Pathways program
Today in Special Interest Matters I spoke about the success of the West Coast Wilderness Railway and Pathways Program. You can view the speech here: [...]Read More... from Special Interest…
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ABC Hobart Drive – TT Line
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Critical Appraisal of TTLine 2024/25 Financials
Assessing the Fiscal Health and Future Viability of TTline The TTLine annual financials were lodged with ASIC 5 weeks ago without fanfare. Often, and more usually, they are lodged late…
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ABC Mornings – Public Accounts Committee
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- 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?
- Mental health in political life vital to democracy
- ABC Mornings – 3 March 2026
- Hydro’s challenges are part of a system-wide pattern affecting every other major public entity in the state
- Why our Budget needs to confront reality, not continue to pretend we’re living in fantasy land
- Six Months In, Hydro’s “Subdued Year” Looks More Like a Storm Warning
- Hydro’s profit (and ours) will be under water