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Job creation remains centre stage in the election campaign
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:45am
Job creation remains the key issue of the state election campaign. At the Liberals' campaign launch in Launceston, the party leader Will Hodgman vowed they would create 5,000 new jobs if they win government [Read more]
Hodgman makes 5000-job promise
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:30am
OPPOSITION Leader Will Hodgman promised 5000 jobs and a quick start to government at the Liberal Party campaign launch in Launceston this morning. [Read more]
$250,000 promised for town
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:10am
GEORGE Town will receive a $250,000 boost if a majority Liberal government is elected in two weeks. [Read more]
Labor jobs plan for people with a disability
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 11:10am
HUMAN Services Minister Rebecca White yesterday announced plans to introduce a rebate of up to $2000 for private sector employers who hire a person with disability. [Read more]
Labor-Green agenda to close schools
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
Labor and the Greens are hoping Tasmanians will forget that they only ever put their school closures agenda on hold until after the 2014 state election. The fact is nearly two years ago the Labor-Green [Read more]
Liberal Plan to rebuild essential services – Supporting Tasmanian Police and Community Youth Clubs
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
A majority Liberal Government will invest an extra $250,000 each year in the PCYC Network in Tasmania so that they can continue to support and educate our youth to reduce crime and repeat offending. We [Read more]
Has Giddings gone flaky on Cadbury's investment?
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
After a Labor candidate torpedoed a major golf development, it looks like Lara Giddings has gone flaky on another major job-creating investment – Cadbury’s. The $16 million investment in Cadbury’s will create jobs and another [Read more]
Earth to Lara - it's not about you
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
What yesterday’s debate confirmed is that for Lara Giddings this election is all about Labor and her job. Labor are more concerned about themselves than Tasmania. The reason we didn’t do a deal in 2010 [Read more]
Brenton Best attacks Giddings for failing on Labor values
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
The announcement today by Brenton Best of his 'Labor Values Plan' is further evidence of how dysfunctional Labor is, and how weak and compromised Lara Giddings is for allowing Mr Best to continue his campaign [Read more]
Ratings cut another blow for Tasmania
Published: Sat 1 Mar 2014, 10:50am
International ratings agency Moody’s has down rated Tasmania’s AA1 economic rating from stable to negative. In 2012 Moody’s cut our rating from AAA to Aa1 and has now sent a signal to the markets that [Read more]