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Published: Wed 25 Jun 2014, 12:00pm

The Liberal Government is getting on with the job of fixing Tasmania's budget while ensuring the vulnerable are protected. We are committed to working through our own budget process to deliver a State Budget [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 7:55pm

The sale of Tasmanian ports, rail and even the Bass Strait Ferry Service has been recommended by the Productivity Commission. The commission's report into the state's shipping and freight industry has highlighted the parlous state [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:45pm

It's no wonder that Nick McKim was sacked as Education Minister, given his latest bizarre rant that employing up to 25 new literacy and numeracy specialists is somehow bad. After 16 years of Labor and [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:45pm

The Liberal Government has stepped in to help ensure Tasmanians in need don't go without. We will provide an additional $87,000 to extend the 2013-14 emergency food relief funding by six-months until 31 December 2014. [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:45pm

The Liberal Government is committed to supporting our volunteers. Tasmania's older people fulfil a broad range of volunteering roles, both formally, within areas such as emergency services, sport and recreation, and the environment; and informally, [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:45pm

Tasmanian salmon producer Tassal is to be congratulated for its work in replacing all of its copper treated nets with a more environmentally sensitive alternative. The achievement is detailed in the release today of Tassal's [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:45pm

Today Bryan Green and the Labor Party have again proved that they are incapable of contributing to serious political debate. Mr Green's bizarre comments about TT-Line fares, based on his "simple" analysis of fares on [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 5:05pm

The Federal Government has lost a bid to delist more than 70,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage Area (WHA). The United Nations' World Heritage Committee has rejected the Government's application to reverse protection [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 4:55pm

Shadow Tourism Minister Scott Bacon has welcomed reports that tourist numbers on the Spirit of Tasmania have improved in the current financial year. “Labor welcomes this boost to the number [Read more]

Published: Tue 24 Jun 2014, 4:55pm

Labor will write to the Acting Ombudsman and Auditor-General regarding the blatant politicisation of the public service by the Hodgman Government. [Read more]