Last night, the Parliament voted to request a significant expansion of the Public Accounts Committee’s oversight of the ongoing Spirits fiasco, because the Liberals have shown they can’t be trusted to deliver major projects.

The Public Accounts Committee will be asked to significantly expand the scope of their inquiry into the Spirits fiasco, to provide ongoing oversight of construction timeframes, budget blowouts, support for tourism operators and primary producers, and project governance.

The House also requested hearings to continue until at least 2027.

The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said it will be hard to ever trust this government again and people are demanding answers about how this could have happened.

So far, the only answers we have from the Liberals are ones we have dragged out of them over six months of questioning.

We will continue to hold the Liberal minority government to account over the biggest infrastructure stuff-up in Tasmania’s history and look forward to the Public Accounts Committee doing the same until this project is finally delivered.

Anita Dow MP
Deputy Labor Leader
Shadow Minister for Infrastructure