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Madam Speaker,
In January last year I was honoured to receive the support of my colleagues to become the State’s 46th Premier and shortly after that, around 12 months to the day, coronavirus found its way to the Australian mainland and unfortunately to our shores as well.
We were faced with the probability of a significant health crisis if action wasn’t taken swiftly to protect our community, that action meant limiting people’s movements and closing businesses where people congregated, and sadly the impact on our economy was severe.
We banned cruise ships, closed our borders and we stayed home to save lives.
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Easier access to medicinal cannabis, millions of dollars for youth mental health services and turning TasTAFE into a government business are among a raft of announcements in a wide-ranging economic update from the Tasmanian Premier.
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They include $41 million to improve youth mental health services
The Premier also flagged turning TasTAFE into an independent government business
Peter Gutwein delivered a State of the State address on Tuesday that was more like an election-year budget than the usual list of government achievements.
Most of the announcements were in response to recommendations from the final report of the Premier s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PESRAC), set up in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The subject of Tasmania’s AFL expansion bid goes back 30 years to when the league was founded and it’s popped up in the news yet again.
This time, the Tasmanian government have given the AFL an ultimatum.
The AFL must give Tasmania a date for entry to the league, or the state government will end its lucrative multimillion-dollar funding deals to Hawthorn and North Melbourne. The risk, however, is that the AFL could look at their spreadsheets and reply, “computer says no.” In fact, the AFL have already told Tasmania in response that they need another year to establish the feasibility of a team because of the financial impact of COVID-19.
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Premium Content  DARK Mofo will be free to return to its gloriously dark and subversive best this year as its organisers break from the sponsorship deals they say were slowly killing the festival. After a year of uncertainty, Mona owner David Walsh confirmed a shorter, more intense festival would go ahead, from June 16 to 22. Dark s back, which, in the immortal words of Mark Spitz, who was also making a comeback, could be good, could be great, could be terrible , Mr Walsh, the festival s chief financier, said. Mark didn t mention that there is another possibility - it could be cancelled. But it wouldn t be worth doing if there was no risk. There s lots of risk, so it must really be worth doing.