Chaos in Tasmania as Election Looms!
The Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has sacked the Greens from cabinet, as a day of drama unfolds.
The Gutter Trash understands the Premier called Greens leader Nick McKim and fellow Greens minister Cassy O’Connor into her office this morning.
Ms Giddings then told them that they are no longer needed as ministers and their commission will be terminated as of tomorrow.
Mr McKim is Tasmania’s Education and Corrections Minister; Ms O’Connor holds the portfolios of Human Services, Climate Change and Aboriginal Affairs.
The Premier has also visited the Governor this morning, but her office would not say why.
It has been widely tipped Ms Giddings will announce the state election date this afternoon.
Giddings has an abysmal reputation with a track record of high unemployment, poor education, and few job prospects for the State’s dwindling population.
Liberal leader Will Hodgman is a clear favourite to win the election with voters practically salivating at the prospect of giving Giddings the boot.
THE PULP MILL – IT’S NOT DEAD IT’S JUST RESTING
Giddings is also expected to confirm she is going to recall parliament before the election, to shore up the Tamar Valley pulp mill project.
Ms Giddings is considering legislation to strengthen the mill’s permits.
Several international buyers are eyeing off Gunns assets and bids close at the end of March.
Ms Giddings says she wants to do everything she can to make the project as attractive as possible and recalling parliament is an option.
But this will make the Premier vulnerable to a no confidence motion and the Greens MP Kim Booth says he is considering moving one.
If supported by the Liberals, it means Tasmanians could get an election earlier than the date tipped for March.
The Opposition has previously labelled a Greens split as a “fake divorce.”
The Opposition has not ruled out its own no confidence motion in the Premier if she recalls parliament.
“I’m not going to discuss parliamentary tactics, but we have no confidence in this government and if parliament is recalled it’s quite obvious we have no confidence in the government,” Mr Gutwein said.
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How prescient. Lara has set the election for March 15.
Reb – it seems nobody is interested in Tasmania so I thought I would put the car on the Spirit and here I am to join you down here.
I love Tas. It is my fave bit of the land.
I imagine more people will move to the Emerald Isle as he rest of the place turns into an Anzac biscuit left in the oven too long.
Did anyone hear a fascinating Background Briefing on our ABC about illiteracy rates in Tas?
Some survey claims half the population cannot read or write proper-like.
They have a different school system apparently which involves special effort and moving if a child is to progress beyond Year 10.
Anyway I hope the surveyors do not include me in any research about numeracy. I would swell the dunces’ column.
We could lease the island to the Chinese for 99 years.
It would be much prettier if we let the French run it for a while.
Communist-concrete-block-utilitarianism has knocked it out of the Chinese.
What a pity the Frogs didn’t raise the tricolour here. I often imagine what the S Harbour foreshore would look like. Delightful. Local sandstone. No nasty meat coloured bricks. Hideous wedding cakes.
Knocked an aesthetic sense out of the C.
Herr v Fahrenheit has set the oven too high. Again.
“Some survey claims half the population cannot read or write proper-like.”
So one head nodded in affirmation at the questions and the other one shrugged ?
I laughed.
So did I…. 🙂
We in Taswegia … 😉
I luv the place too … luvly people … said to have improved as some people moved to Melbourne! 😆
Just got this in me`inbox,
Limited-News is now making-up teh-usa weather for its `blogs`,
anything to keep the lock-steppers happy l suppose.
Nicely caught-out by JohnB and his Sister, but we won`t hear a whisper from the embedded-media, for sure.