Another Rockliff broken promise, more Abetz health cuts

Premier Jeremy Rockliff has been exposed breaking yet another election promise while he continues to let Eric Abetz run riot slashing $700 million from Tasmania’s health system.

On 1 July last year, the Premier stood beside a cancer patient and promised the entire first stage of the North West Hospitals Masterplan would be delivered under a re-elected Tasmanian Liberal Government.

He committed a further $117 million to fully fund and fast track the first stage of the masterplan, including more cancer, dialysis and diagnostic services for the North West by 2030.

At the time, the patient said more services closer to home on the North West Coast would make things a lot easier for him and patients like him.

When making the commitment, the Premier said if he couldn’t secure a funding partnership from the Federal Government, he would “lock in funding to provide certainty to the North West and ensure these important projects will be delivered.”

Today, neither the Premier or Eric Abetz could say where the funding was in this year’s budget.

That’s because they haven’t funded what they promised.  There is, however, a section titled “Projects contingent on Australian Government funding”.

This section includes zombie projects like the Cradle Mountain Cableway and Tamar Bridge Crossing, and might as well be renamed the “Graveyard of broken Liberal promises”.

After 13 years of Liberal waste Premier Rockliff has put Eric Abetz in charge of cutting jobs and services to pay for it, and Tasmanians in need are suffering the consequences.