Key Points
A Dean Winter Labor government will end the massive delays and cost blowouts that have become a standard feature of Liberal government projects.
To stop taxpayer money being wasted and to deliver infrastructure sooner, a Labor government will:
- Set on-time, on-budget delivery of infrastructure projects as a KPI of all Department Secretaries and government business CEOs.
- Ban bonuses for Government business executives who fail to deliver.
- Establish an on-time, on-budget infrastructure oversight team.
Why we need it
Nothing is getting done under this minority Liberal government. Just some of the failed or over budget projects include:
- The Spirit of Tasmania project - six years late and $500 million over budget.
- The new Tamar Bridge - promised at three elections in a row and still no plan in place.
- Light rail for Hobart by 2023 - never delivered.
- The Cradle Mountain Cableway - blown out from $30m to $190m and never delivered
- Fifth Lane on the Southern Outlet – promised in 2018 and costed at $35 million. If ever actually delivered, will cost at least five times that much.
“This election is a choice between a Labor Government that will give Tasmania a fresh start, or the Liberals who can only offer more of the same.”
The details
The on-time, on-budget infrastructure oversight team will provide oversight of all projects over $100 million to ensure proper scoping and planning occurs, good value procurement takes place and construction milestones are met.
The team will be funded from reallocating resources within the Department of State Growth.
A Labor government will hold senior bureaucrats to account. Executives who stuff up major projects should be sacked, not given almost $200,000 in bonuses like TasPorts Executives were during the Spirits of Tasmania debacle.
Every Departmental Secretary and Government business CEO will have on-time, on-budget delivery of infrastructure as one of their KPIs – and they will be held accountable.
