Jeremy
Rockliff’s failure to act on increasing cost of living pressures is hurting
working Tasmanians.
Today’s ABS
Selected Living Cost Indexes data shows that Tasmanian workers have experienced
the biggest increase in living costs in 20 years – up 9.3 per cent since the
same time last year.
Coupled
with last week’s Consumer Price Index data, the economic picture for Tasmania
is getting bleaker.
Tasmania is in
the grips of a cost of living crisis, meanwhile the Liberal Government still
refuses to prioritise health, housing, power prices and education over building
a stadium in Hobart.
Tasmanian
workers are the poorest
paid in the country.
The Liberals’
inaction on cost of living further confirms that they clearly have their
priorities wrong.
The Liberal
Government twice voted down Labor’s legislation in Parliament last year to cap
power price increases at 2.5 per cent, which would have provided Tasmanians
with relief from soaring power costs.
Tasmanians are
struggling to deal with the cost of living crisis brought about by the
Liberals’ mismanagement of the economy and Jeremy Rockliff’s focus on the wrong
priorities.
Instead of obsessing over a billion-dollar stadium in Hobart, which will rack up more debt and bleed more money from the state’s budget, Jeremy Rockliff needs to start focusing on measures to fix the priority issues faced by Tasmanians.
Shane Broad MP
Shadow Treasurer
