WA billionaire Andrew Forrest’s investment company Tattarang has spent $43 million this week to increase its Huon stake to 18.5 per cent in a move that complicates the $550 million JBS takeover.
Gambling with the future When
Crikey covered the April Tasmanian election, we noted a lacuna in the debate. No one wanted to talk about the state s policy on gaming. You could watch the Tasmanian Council of Social Service discussing poverty in Tasmania, but no one save Greens leader Cassy O Connor wanted to talk about the role of gambling. And as James Boyce points out in his book
Losing Streak, it s not even as though it brings in a huge amount of tax revenue for the state although it does contribute a decent amount to party coffers. Regardless, newly reelected Premier Peter Gutwein was able to withhold information such as the tax rates that would be applied to gaming until after the election.
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The Liberals won the Tasmanian election as predicted, but what will happen in the next Federal election?
14 May 2021
At 7.30pm Wednesday 12 May the Tasmanian Electoral Commission confirmed
the result of the general election held on Saturday 1 May. The Liberal Party
won 13 seats, Labor 9, and the Greens 2. The 25
th seat went to the Glenorchy
mayor, the independent Kristie Johnston, one of the five female members for the
Hobart-based Division of Clark. In the race for that 5
th Clark seat
Johnston polled 9,970 votes to 8,716 for the defeated independent Sue Hickey.
The other four Clark members are re-elected female incumbents, Elise
Australia: Liberals survive Tasmanian election due to near-record low Labor vote
After cynically calling an election nearly a year early to try to claim credit for supposedly protecting Tasmania from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the state Liberal Party government has barely scraped back into office.
The result underscores the instability of the political establishment nationally. Premier Peter Gutwein’s government suffered an electoral swing against it for the second election in a row, but survived because the Labor Party’s vote plunged to just 28.4 percent, a near-record low.
Due to postal vote counting and the state’s complicated proportional representation system, it will be a week before it is known whether Gutwein’s government will hold a majority in the 25-seat lower house of parliament, or fall one seat short, on 12. Throughout the campaign, Gutwein declared he would resign rather than lead a minority government, but his plea for a strong majority government fell f
Liberals Win Tasmania Election
Tasmania’s Liberal Party has claimed a historic third straight election win but whether it can govern in majority probably won’t be known for days.
Premier Peter Gutwein is confident but not assured of winning the 13th seat needed to deliver the government a majority in the state’s 25-member lower house.
Counting continues after Saturday night’s poll, with eyes on the crucial race in the Hobart-based electorate of Clark where independents Kristie Johnston and Sue Hickey are polling strongly.
Liberal success in one of the two in-doubt Clark seats could deliver the party a majority, while independent success could give rise to a kingmaker.