If you grow #potatoes in #Tasmania, please check your crops for diseases. Potato mop-top virus ( #PMTV ) has been detected in Tasmania for the 1st time. To the best of our knowledge, this virus is not widespread in the region yet, but it is crucial to be vigilant for this disease. - buff.ly/A7ovJ8g

This is the elephant in the room the Tasmanian Liberals don’t want to talk about. We are paying nearly $2million a day in interest on the state debt. Net debt is now worse than post WW1, WW2 and the Great Depression. All thanks to the Liberals. Utter incompetence.

Turns out the former Tas Liberal member booted by the voters of Braddon is now a principal advisor to the Tasmanian Premier on $245k a year. Nobody knows what he actually does.

And another #politas gem from the archives, 2014.

Bridget’s electorate office of five couldn’t cope with basic constituent enquiries. Emails, calls, letters ignored. How will she go with *one* staffer in state politics?

We are an international laughing stock

Vibe #tasmania

Tasmanian Liberal Treasurer understands ‘people are doing it tough’. Mansion he grew up in:

So many Tasmanians still wondering: what has the AFL promised the Premier post-politics?

This is way more important than a new stadium! #politas www.centralcoast.tas.gov.au/have-your-sa...

Well done Angus. Good Job. Fantastic

No such thing as a nuanced discussion in Tasmania. Never has been. Never will be.

Tasmanian problems #376 Go to a family funeral. Service booklet contains a recipe for savoury toast. All the aunties LOSE THEIR MINDS as under no circumstances should this recipe be written down. Person responsible <forgiven> as she’s from The Other Side ™️ (aka Mainland).

If your own staff don’t know the Housing Connect number for crisis accommodation; where Centrelink is located or the local free pantry opening hours you’re not fit to be in Parliament. Leadership matters.

Seems everyone ~outside~ of Bass is an expert on Bridget Archer. She was a lousy local member. Her office was hopeless. Homeless/vulnerable people turned away daily. Emails unanswered. Phone calls not returned. They didn’t even know about ~basic~ support services. #auspol

LNP wheeling out Linda Reynolds is quite something.

I hope someone is keeping an eye on the Dalai Lama

If you know, you know

The question: what has the AFL promised Jeremy Rockliff post-politics? #politas

Dutton: the Emperor has no clothes.

Welcome but long overdue.

Preparing to say goodbye to a long-term terminally ill relative. They’ve chosen VAD. No more pain.

ABS population data for Tasmania this week reveals the population growth rate continues to steadily decline, driven by large net interstate migration losses and slowing natural increase with natural decline recorded for the Sept Qtr for the first time. #politas open.substack.com/pub/lisadenn...

For the record, Joe Hockey is a defence lobbyist who stands to make millions from defence contracts with the US and other allies. To just describe him in interviews as a former US ambassador and not his CURRENT vested interest role is not just irresponsible, it's lying.

For those up the back: The Tas AFL team mascot a deliberate distraction from Tas Lib Minority Govt’s scandalous budget mismanagement and savage public sector cuts. #Tasmania

GET MASHED, M8. 🥔 No vision, no policy - just fear, division & authoritarian garbage. Dump Dutton | Tees/stickers: bit.ly/4hn1VcK

Failed Tasmanian minority Liberal Treasurer lecturing parliament about process. We wouldn’t be staring down a fire sale of government assets if he hadn’t screwed the state’s finances.

Watch the Tasmanian Minority Liberal Govt had over Port Arthur and Cacades Female Factory sites to their developer mates. Nothing is off the table for these charlatans.

Komlopteris is the youngest known "seed fern" in the fossil record, surviving in Tasmania until the Eocene. Unlike true ferns, which produce spores, "seed ferns" produced, well...seeds. #FossilFriday

The veil has been lifted… #politas

This is the modern equivalent of dropping leaflets down by plane. “Your government has chosen to do this to you.” *pause for emphasis*. This is what all US allies need to do until it reaches those who most need to hear it. Including some Democrats, apparently.

The big question: what else will be announced re privatisation? Have the Tas minority Lib govt got other plans? #politas

There you have it. Tasmanian Minority Liberal Govt want to privatise public assets. A fire sale because they screwed up the budget. #politas

Really enjoying the new #politas 'War on Red Tape' cliché fiesta. I feel kinda sorry for red tape though. It gets a bad rap, but some of it is pretty handy for stopping us getting underpaid, injured at work, or sending children up to clean the chimneys for tuppence a day...

And another #politas gem from the archives, 2014.

More #politas merry go round, this time from the Tasmanian Liberals in 2011

The #politas merry go round

These clinics have been a life saver for me and my family. It’s not like they are a rifle or soccer club in the middle of nowhere?

May I just suggest to Jeremy Rockliff’s media team that the whole sending the ferry to Scotland then bringing it back again is simply what happens when you somehow manage to utterly fail to have somewhere to park your new ferries despite being well aware that you would be needing them years ahead.

Spirit of Tasmania IV sitting in the Port of Leith, soon to be joined by her sister ship

Spirits of Tasmania have become a floating billboard for the incompetence of the minority Liberal government. Explains why they wanted them hidden on the other side of the world.

Head-spinning stuff. On Thursday, reports that the Scottish government is in "advanced negotiations" to lease new Spirit of Tas to house Ukrainian refugees. Yesterday, Scottish government denies those reports. Today, Tas government says its coming home. Still unclear where it will be berthed...

One thing I can’t get out of my head is that zelensky speaks English as a foreign language and then you have these two arrogant men just shouting over him. Really primal, schoolyard bully stuff.

There is a much bigger story to this sale than meets the eye.

This affects all Tasmanians and viewers of the 7 Tasmania nightly news program.

The only TV station to provide anything resembling local news in rural Tasmania will now lurch even further to the right.

#EMRS has the first poll on the Macquarie Point stadium for a while. Clear and simple question. Stadium net -23 (36-59) #politas emrs.com.au/sites/defaul...

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

Is the pope about to pop off his perch?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... This is huge news. #auspol