Posted by
adambrooks on Mar 14, 2012 in
News and Media
Speech to the House of Assembly of the Tasmanian Parliament on March 13, 2012
Mr BROOKS (Braddon) – I rise to reply to the Premier’s address and to reinforce my full support for the Tasmanian Liberals’ plan for the future. The Leader of the Opposition, Will Hodgman, has outlined already the five pillars that are vital to our economy and where a Hodgman Liberal Government will focus to propel Tasmania out of the basket that is our economy and into an economic environment that allows us...
Posted by adambrooks on Mar 8, 2012
The latest Fraser Institute Survey of mining companies has revealed that 69 per cent of mining companies see uncertainty over which areas could be locked up by the Green-Labor Government as a deterrent for investment in our state.
Along with Tasmania’s significant slip in worldwide mining rankings, this is further evidence that having the Greens in cabinet is killing our economy and sending out the...
Posted by adambrooks on Mar 6, 2012
All the Premier could muster in her State of the State speech to support the hospitality industry was to dust of a long forgotten past promise and re-announce it.
It’s taken 18 months for the Government to remember its promise to fund the hospitality industry skills development initiative that it announced in the 2010 Innovation Strategy.
Since the Innovation Strategy, the industry has had no ongoing...