Tasinsure’s brief existence revealed the high stakes of state-led innovation and the pitfalls of launching without a solid foundation.

Tasinsure’s brief existence revealed the high stakes of state-led innovation and the pitfalls of launching without a solid foundation.
While Tasmania slashes councillor numbers, the real challenge lies in uniting its fragmented local governments for true progress.
If you have a rotten apple in your bowl, you wouldn’t blame the healthy ones. Same goes for the state parliament election result.
Early education is vital if any plans for productivity and growth are to be realised in Tasmania
Bringing Aldi to Tasmania isn’t just a gimmick, it shows that this state can compete.
We go to an election with nobody solving Tasmania’s problems.
The state budget was delivered yesterday. The Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, kindly emailed me with an explainer as to why it was good.
When will the housing crisis be addressed? Not any time soon.
In my debut address, I tackled the contentious Macquarie Point stadium funding, unveiling how creative accounting is stretching Tasmanians’ trust and budgets.
Congrats to the PM. He got it right. But a word of caution. Elections are a circus, good PR doesn’t fix housing, health or food prices and a win isn’t a mandate for an ideology war.