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Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 11:00pm

I was pleased today to sign the Gonski pledge on behalf of the Liberals. We have strongly supported Gonski since day one and advocated for the Government to sign up to it before Labor and [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 11:00pm

David O’Byrne has serious questions to answer over a possible conflict of interest concerning one of his TV advertisements featuring a representative of a company that has been awarded a $100,000 government grant. Yesterday Lara [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 11:00pm

Revelations in this morning’s Australian* newspaper that Lara Giddings only “divorced” the Greens due to internal Labor polling, and that her leadership was under threat by David O’Byrne confirm the deep divisions within the ALP. [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 2:46pm

A union is warning the existing copper telephone network is too degraded in parts to carry the National Broadband Network. NBN Co has revealed the network rollout will be completed using existing copper wires where [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 2:46pm

Tasmania's Liberal leader has lobbied the Federal Communications Minister over revised plans for Tasmania to receive slower broadband over the copper network. The head of NBN Co, Ziggy Switkowski, has revealed the old copper network [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 1:17pm

The Tasmanian Greens today used their launch of their ticket contesting the seat of Lyons to also launch an election commitment to establish a high quality dining trail along the western side of the Tamar [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 12:59pm

The Tasmanian Government has rejected a national health system report which says the state has fared poorly. Topics: health-policy, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250 [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 12:52pm

The Tasmanian Greens today announced a suite of planned reforms to enhance the equality and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) Tasmanians.   Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said the [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 8:04am

Queensland's Health Minister is considering a formal complaint about ALP election ads running in Tasmania. Mr Springborg says Queensland health workers featured in the ads have not been sacked as claimed, but took redundancy packages. [Read more]

Published: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 5:44am

The Premier says one-off grants announced today for Tasmanian businesses should not be viewed as election promises. Money from a $3.5 million infrastructure fund is being distributed to encourage development, including at The Springs on [Read more]