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Rebuilding the Budget
Published: Wed 28 May 2014, 12:30pm
The Liberal Government is committed to rebuilding the budget day by day, dollar by dollar. Labor and the Greens left Tasmania with a $1.1 billion budget black-hole. [Read more]
Supporting the NBN Rollout
Published: Wed 28 May 2014, 12:30pm
We are getting on with the job and helping deliver the high-speed internet Tasmanians deserve. I'm pleased to announce the Liberal Government has been advised there are now 16 FSAM sites under construction in [Read more]
Labor's skeletons make budget task more difficult
Published: Wed 28 May 2014, 12:30pm
The Liberal Government is getting on with the job of delivering on our Plan for jobs and growth which was endorsed by the Tasmanian people at the state election. We will keep our [Read more]
Health boss Jane Holden's job terminated, colleague suspended
Published: Wed 28 May 2014, 11:20am
Tasmania's Health Minister has given senior health department executive Jane Holden 48 hours to show why she should not be sacked. An Integrity Commission investigation has found Ms Holden and her colleague Gavin Austin used [Read more]
Sitel switching off its Devonport call centre, 100 jobs to go
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 9:15pm
Global company Sitel has told its 100 Devonport call centre workers their jobs will be redundant in December. Topics: telecommunications, unions, local-government, devonport-7310 [Read more]
Inquiry finds misconduct by senior Tasmanian health bureaucrats
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 8:25pm
The Tasmanian Government is yet to announce how it will act on nepotism allegations against a senior health manager. North-west bureaucrat, Gavin Austin, is one of two senior managers named in an Integrity Commission report [Read more]
Australia Post worker noticed money missing from safe, Launceston court hears
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 7:45pm
The former licensee of the Newstead Post Office denies stealing almost $30,000 from the government-owned business. Topics: courts-and-trials, public-sector, launceston-7250, newstead-7250 [Read more]
SeaRoad Investment Confirms Liberals' Bass Strait Policy
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 2:40pm
SeaRoad Tasmania and its majority Tasmanian shareholder Chas Kelly is to be congratulated for investing in new vessels that will provide a massive increase in freight capacity across Bass Strait. [Read more]
Recognising Tasmanian Women in Business
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 2:40pm
Entries have opened today for the 2014 Telstra Business Women's Awards. Our state has many women worthy of recognition for their work in business so I encourage Tasmanians to make a nomination for [Read more]
Coalition policy to return security to forestry industry
Published: Tue 27 May 2014, 2:40pm
Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, said it is disappointing that the volume and value of logs harvested in Australia is at the lowest point in 10 years following a decrease [Read more]