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Singapore meetingsMeetings today with South East Asian woodchip buyers confirmed that despite current challenges, the medium to long term market for Tasmanian woodchips is strong, because of our secure resource base.
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Asian meetingsI look forward to meeting a number of major leaders in the wood chip market in Singapore and Japan, talking up our renewable forest industry and countering the Greens misinformation.
Hodgman to fight for forestry jobsI am pleased that the Premier has accepted my proposal for a joint trade mission. The Greens' propaganda is severely damaging our markets and costing Tasmanian jobs.
Latest EMRSWhile today’s EMRS poll is the fourth in a row to show the Liberals in position to win majority government, there is much more work to be done. Between now and the next election, my team and I will continue to outline our positive plan for Tasmania. Mid Year Report destroys Giddings’ credibilityWill Hodgman said: Lara Giddings staked her leadership on fixing the budget. Today’s Mid Year Financial Report confirms that she has failed. In fact, she has delivered the biggest deficit in Tasmania’s history.
The elephant in the cabinet roomLara Giddings' failure today to even rebuke Nick McKim for his job destroying antics - let alone do the right thing and sack him - shows she lacks the ticker to stand up to the Greens.
Giddings must sack McKimLara Giddings now has no option but to sack Nick McKim from Cabinet.
The forestry deal must go and so should the governmentThe IGA was meant to bring peace. It has failed. The IGA was meant to protect jobs. It has failed.
Future Directions – Forestry is a vital part of a self-reliant TasmaniaA Forestry business survey which gives a heartbreaking insight into the destruction caused to families and communities by the foresty deal, is a timely reminder of why we need to support our cornerstone industries – not shut them down.
Giddings paralysed by Greens while Liberals’ release economic blueprintLara Giddings has demonstrated just how captive she is to the Greens, by approving the attempts by her Cabinet members to sabotage a major investment in Gunns.
Forestry trade mission welcome; but reveals lack of trust within the GovernmentI am pleased that the Premier has agreed with the Liberals’ call to counter the misinformation about Tasmania’s forest industry that is being spread around the globe by the Greens.
Vacant Hobart offices closed for business under Labor-GreensThe Property Council’s Hobart office vacancy report shows that Hobart is quickly becoming closed for business under Labor and the Greens.
TCCI budget submissionI welcome the release of the TCCI’s budget submission today, which is consistent with the Liberals’ vision set out in our first Future Directions statement earlier this month.
Deloitte, Comsec - reinforce need for policies to grow the economyTwo new reports on the state of Tasmania’s economy again highlight the need for policies to grow the Tasmanian economy – policies which only a majority Liberal Government can deliver, because unlike Labor, we aren’t beholden to the Greens.
More politicians will not fix the economyOn a day when our economic challenges were in the spotlight, it is disappointing that the Premier is once again focussed on how many politicians there are in Tasmania.
Conservation Agreement turns Tasmania into giant national parkAs a result of the disastrous forest deal, over 58 percent of Tasmania’s native forests will be locked up, and thanks to Labor and the Greens we are now a giant national park.
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- Hodgman launches first Future Directions statement
- Future Directions – the importance of forestry to Tasmania becoming more self-reliant
- Hodgman to lay out Future Directions in 2012
- Giddings now a Lame Duck Premier
- Child Protection Inquiry confirms systemic failures – Government must finally act
- TCCI correct about Labor-Green political instability
- Where is the additional health money coming from?
- Now tourism industry in recession too – Hodgman offer to work with Gov’t access group
- Liberals’ positive action in response to Recession
- Call for dodgy TOTE sale to be investigated by committee


