News broken today that Jeremy Rockliff is using taxpayers’ money to promote himself on social media while Tasmanians struggle with the cost-of-living is another new low even by his and his government’s standards.
The Sorell Times reports that the Premier spent $22,000 of taxpayers’ money on social media advertising in the 90 day period between October 4 and January 1 – far beyond the spend of any Tasmanian MP.
The Premier argued his spend of taxpayer money was in the public interest – but a quick look at the Facebook ad library clearly shows this isn’t the case, with a string of ads loaded with the Liberals’ trademark chest-beating political puffery.
This, at a time when people are struggling with the cost of living, we have people living in tents due to the government’s failure on housing and our health system is on the verge of collapse.
Jeremy Rockliff should apologise and either personally pay the money back or the Liberal party should immediately pay the money back into the public purse.
Spending taxpayers’ money on your own politically-charged Facebook ads is morally bankrupt, fails every pub test and is typical of a government that after ten years has completely lost its way.
Dean Winter MP
Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Assembly
