Concerns are growing about Labor's plan to abandon TT-Line and scrap TasPorts.
The plan raises critical questions Tasmanians deserve answers to, including:
How does stripping TT-Line of our ships and shifting TT-Line's debt actually help taxpayers?
Labor proposes moving TT-Line's debt into a new government entity, but the debt doesn't disappear.
Tasmanians will still be responsible for it, so how does this improve the State's financial position rather than simply shifting the burden?
Why create a bigger, more complicated bureaucracy?
Labor wants to abolish TasPorts, a Government Business that pays dividends to Tasmanians, creating a big new bureaucracy.
Why create another Government body that will slow decision-making, remove the expectation of commercial discipline and reduce the capacity of a key economic enabler?
Why is this restructure necessary, given that the challenges around the Spirits project have already been addressed?
Tasmanians deserve to understand why sweeping structural changes are needed, given the new Spirits delivery project is now on track with the ships due to be in service in October.
