100 Days of Inaction

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First 100 Days

Implementation Plan

The Plan to deliver strong and stable majority government, to get things done

A real assessment of the Government’s

performance - against their own promises

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The First 100 Days Inaction Plan

100 Days of Inaction

The Liberal Party promised to act decisively to ‘change the direction’ of the state and to ‘get things done’.

The Liberals themselves set 100 days as a key milestone to measure their progress.

It is now time to reflect on what has actually been achieved in that period.

If writing letters, setting up reviews, deferring decisions, making excuses and blaming others were Key Performance Indicators then the Liberals would have passed with flying colours.

However tangible actions, firm decisions and concrete results have been few and far between.

The community trusted the Liberals to act on their promises, but they have failed to deliver on so many issues, including:

• Promising to protect frontline services and instead halting elective surgery and directing Tasmania Police to make budget savings

• Promising to unlock the forests but not delivering a single extra log to the industry for six years and guaranteeing a return to the forest wars

• Backing away from their heavily promoted promise to reduce Spirit of Tasmania fares by 20% and not ruling out stripping a massive special dividend that would cripple the business.

• Promising to cut $10 million in boards and committees but instead establishing a raft of new bodies

• Promising to fix the budget but meekly accepting massive cuts to health and education delivered by the Federal Liberal Government and delaying their own budget until the end of August.

The 100 day honey moon is over, it is now time for the Liberal Government to start acting on its commitments.

PRE-ELECTION PROMISE: Tasmanians have learnt not to trust Liberal election promises

Unlocking the forests?

Not a single extra log for six years

The Liberal Government’s forestry legislation does not provide a single extra log to the industry for at least six years and guarantees a return to the forest wars.

Anyone who voted for the Liberal Party in the belief that they would “unlock Tasmania” and “give it back” have been badly betrayed.

What they said before the election:

“Under the Liberals, there will be no more lock-ups; not one more stick, not one more rock.”

Circular Head Chronicle State Election Feature

“Our vision is to use the resource, open it up for productive use that will provide security of resources for the industries, for the companies that work in it, potential new investments.”

Will Hodgman - Radio National breakfast,

Wednesday 12 March 2014

What they said after the election:

The Liberals policy ‘establishes and moratorium on native forest harvesting that will be in place for at least six years’.

Paul Harriss, 2014

‘It is not necessary for the land to be placed into immediate production’.

Paul Harriss, 2014

GRANDSTANDING: Before the election the Liberals talked tough on forestry but have only delivered uncertainty

Rebuilding our essential services?

Cuts to police

Before the election, the Liberals promised:

“An extra 108 police on the beat is part of our long term Plan to rebuild essential services.

“As part of our Plan, the Liberals will also re-establish specialised units such as the Public Order Response Team

(PORT), the Marine and Rescue Team, the Fraud and e-Crime Unit and the Cold Case Unit, which will be included as part of a new Serious and Organised Crime Unit.”

What happened after the election?

Far from protecting frontline services, the Liberal Government has directed Tasmania Police to make “immediate” budget savings, RTI documents show the directive states:

“Commanders/Directors are required to take immediate action to ensure that budgets within their commands are reviewed in accordance with the above direction and only essential expenditure is incurred for the remainder of this financial year.”

Only 500 public servants jobs to go?

During the election campaign, the Liberals had every opportunity to tell Tasmanians the truth about how many public servants they were planning to sack.

Every time the answer was the same - only 500 would go.

Now they’re in Government they have admitted they will have to at least 1500 to fund $500 million dollars worth of election promises they knew they couldn’t afford.

As Michael Ferguson said on the 7:30 Report on 30 May 2014, “everything is on the table.”

The jobs of 1500 Tasmanians are now on the line because the Liberals spent their way into government and lied to cover their tracks.

It’s a clear broken promise, case closed.

ALL SMILES: The Liberals were happy to promise the world before the election but in reality have failed to deliver reduced Spirit fares

Making TT-Line travel cheaper?

The Liberals’ Magical Disappearing Promise on TT-Line Fares

The Liberals promised to cut fares on the Spirits of Tasmania by 20 per cent. After all the tough talk of “requiring” and “directing” TT-Line, the Liberals are now “requesting” a business case and will not answer when or even if fares will drop by the 20 per cent they promised.

Anyone who voted for the Liberals expecting a 20 per cent reduction in the cost of travel on the Spirits has been lied to.

The Liberals are also refusing to rule out stripping a dividend from profits that is supposed to eventually pay for replacement ferries.

What was said before the election:

The Tasmanian Liberals have pledged to drive down Spirit of Tasmania fares by 20 per cent in a bid to turnaround falling passenger numbers.

The Advocate, 4 March 2014

A Majority Liberal Hodgman Government will require the TT Line to set prices, fees and charges which are aimed at increasing the number of visitors to Tasmania

Adam Brooks, 3 March 2014

What they’re saying now:

Let us not pre-empt the TT-Lines’ business case. Let us be patient and wait for it to be presented to the Government

Rene Hidding, 4 June 2014

Liberal love-in hurting Tasmania

Before the election Tony Abbott and Will Hodgman argued that having Liberal Governments in both Canberra and Tasmania would be good for the state.

“Isn’t it good to see a candidate for the premiership who wants to work constructively with the national government rather than pick unnecessary fights with the national government?

Tony Abbott, Feb 2014

The love-in between Tony Abbott and Will Hodgman has delivered billions of dollars worth of cuts to our health and education systems and attacks on the most vulnerable people in our society, including low income families, pensioners and the unemployed.

Faced with an unprecedented threat to jobs and services, Tasmania needs an attack dog, not a lap dog.

“As other state leaders did not hold back expressing their anger about the Commonwealth’s ambush, Mr Hodgman is attempting to play the good cop of the states.”

The Examiner, May 17

Instead we’ve seen a Federal budget that attacks the most vulerable in society and only a weak response from the State Government.

NUMBER ONE FAN: Will Hodgman has been the least critical Premier when it comes to Tony Abbott’s cuts

Standing up for Tasmania?

Where are they cutting waste from?

The Liberals promised to cut boards and committees and save a massive $74 million by reducing supplies, consumables and consultancies.

The first 100 days have shown they have done exactly the opposite.

The Liberals have created new boards including the $1 million Royal Hobart Hospital taskforce, the Planning Reform Taskforce, an energy committee, a freight export committee and they’ve extended the parole board.

Far from making immediate savings when it comes to consultants, they’ve hired an external PR company to handle issues in the health system and they’ve been suspiciously quiet when it comes to cutting supplies and consumables.

100 Days Under Liberal Governments

COLD SHOULDER: Will Hodgman’s lack of sway in Canberra is obvious

The promises

Tony Abbott promised No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.

Will Hodgman promised Tasmanians that a Majority Liberal Government would deliver more jobs, a budget in surplus, open up the State’s forests, re-establish international shipping lines, hand back carbon tax revenues, slash TT-Line fares by 20%, re-build essential services, increase elective surgery numbers,

increase hospital beds, increase doctors, increase nurses, increase police, lead the nation in education and not sell a single public

asset or force one public servant into redundancy.

The realities

• Tasmania’s State Budget unnecessarily delayed • $2.1 billion ripped out of Tasmania’s economy • 1500 Tasmanian public servants to be sacked• Funding to Tasmania’s hospitals and schools slashed• Eligibility for Family Tax Benefits slashed • Concessions for more than 98,800 Tasmanian pensioners

and 5,583 Tasmanian Commonwealth Seniors Health Card holders slashed

• Retirement age raised to 70. • New taxes to visit the doctor and buy medications• New taxes on petrol• Reneged on their promise to unlock Tasmania’s forests• Reneged on their promise to reduce TT-Line fares by 20%• Reduced the State’s freight capacity• Reducing pensions by Index-ing them to the CPI• Indexation of payments and

programmes to our most vulnerable Tasmanian’s frozen • Refuse to rule out stripping profits from TT-Line, Hydro and

other State assets

Authorised by John Dowling, ALP, 2/63 Salamanca Pl