With the Revised Estimates Report, or mini-budget, set to be published next week, Treasurer Guy Barnett has an opportunity to come good on his word and reveal his mythical “pathway” to surplus.

Last year, in response to Labor’s concerns about the direction of the budget, the Treasurer mechanically repeated in Parliament and in the media that he had a “pathway to surplus”, but he has failed to prove that it exists.

Last month, he told the media that the Government’s “pathway to surplus” would be revealed in the Revised Estimates Report.

When the RER is published next week, Treasurer Barnett needs to put his money where his mouth is and show Tasmanians a pathway to a cash surplus to stop the spiralling debt or just admit that the Liberals have no plan to turn Tasmania’s disastrous finances around.  

With wannabe Treasurer Felix Ellis publicly contradicting Mr Barnett’s fiscal approach, the pressure is ramping up on the Treasurer to demonstrate that he is up to the job.

Josh Willie MP
Shadow Treasurer