After yet another parliamentary sitting block filled with unsatisfactory and evasive responses from the Minority Liberal Government, the pressure will be on Minister Eric Abetz to actually provide some answers when he fronts the Public Accounts Committee’s Inquiry into the TT-Line Spirits Project today.

Among a host of unresolved Spirits issues, Tasmanians are still yet to get to the bottom of Jeremy Rockliff’s Scottish leasing shemozzle.

Following reports from veteran Liberal insider Brad Stansfield that the “active negotiations” the Liberals claimed they were in were with a broker who never had any authority from either the British Government, the Scottish Government or the local council, the Minister has a lot of questions to answer.

North-west coasters I speak to are also keen to get answers about why they aren’t seeing more progress at the infamously delayed Berth 3 construction site.

The Spirit of Tasmania replacement project stands to provide enormous benefit to Tasmania, but the Liberals have dropped the ball massively in what has become the biggest infrastructure stuff-up in Tasmanian history.

Labor has relentlessly held the minority Liberal government to account for its failings on the Spirits, and we won’t stop doing so until the ships are finally sailing passengers and freight across the Bass Strait.

Anita Dow MP
Shadow Minister for Infrastructure