The Tasmanian government’s decision to overrule the Independent Planning Commission’s rejection of the Macquarie Point stadium proposal raises serious questions about the integrity of our planning system and the role of political influence in decision-making processes.
The circus comes back to town this week and the acrobats are the headline act, with amazing policy backflips on show.
The election was fought on policies. With a hung parliament, these go out the window and new ones appear
If you have a rotten apple in your bowl, you wouldn’t blame the healthy ones. Same goes for the state parliament election result.
Hiding big decisions behind caretaker mode is a stunt that Rockliff continues to pull. But has his time run out?
Neither party won. Neither leader one. Time to pick a new path.
Debt is good, if it can be serviced or back up with an asset. Tasmania is racking up the debt and not saying how it will pay.
What makes Tasmania so unique? Well, our voting system of course!
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.
