The Rushy Lagoon sale settled on Friday, after the property was on the market since 2018.

The future is bright for the Rushy Lagoon with work already starting on property improvements and plans being developed for less than half to be planted with pine trees for sawlog production creating jobs, while still enabling cattle production and irrigated cropping to continue. 

Regardless of what people think of the sale, the witch-hunt committee the Liberals want to set up will have no power to call Federal officials and won’t change a thing. 

After the last few months dominated by stories of economic decline in Tasmania, it is unbelievable that Premier Rockliff and the Liberals want to launch a parliamentary committee into why a reputable investor would want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the state. 

The Liberals are anti-investment, anti-jobs, anti-forestry and anti-housing.

Labor supports jobs and investment, not pointless political witch hunts. 

That’s why we won’t be supporting this inquiry.