Guy Barnett (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Chairman of the Scrutiny of Government Waste Committee) Share this | Hansard source

What it would do in Tasmania, Senator Humphries and others, is make sure that we would end up being a basket case in terms of the economy. The debt and deficit in Tasmania would be too huge to overcome. We also know that Labor has entertained the possibility of working with the Greens. What we can say, and what I am saying here on the public record, is that a vote for the Greens is a vote for Labor. There is only one party demonstrating fiscal discipline and that is the Liberal Party led by Will Hodgman.

I have copies of the spendometer with me today. They are colour copies and very easy to see. I am happy to make a copy available to anybody who wishes to look at it. I want to applaud Peter Gutwein, the shadow Treasurer of Tasmania, for his tremendous advocacy of the importance of spending wisely, not wasting taxpayers’ money. He has called on Premier Bartlett to make it very clear whether he would cut funding and sell assets.