Ahead of Jeremy Rockliff’s State of the State speech this afternoon, it’s worth casting our memories back to the same speech he made in 2023.

I’ll admit this Premier is good at big announcements, but he’s dreadful at delivering.

Here’s just a small list from 2023:

• Marinus Final Investment Decision by late 2024
• Planning reform
• Tasman Bridge upgrades
• Cradle Valley Cableway
• Mt Wellington Cable Car

So, when the Premier gets up this afternoon and delivers his speech full of empty rhetoric, remember to take your grain of salt because his Liberal minority government won’t deliver any of it. .

Shane Broad MP
Leader of Opposition Business in the House of Assembly

**Mercury, 1 March 2023**