[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_3 Lonely Ministers On the Front Bench_N McKim MP

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JUST THREE LONELY MINISTERS ON FRONT BENCH TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader

Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today described the spectacle of only three
Ministers in the House of Assembly in Question Time as highly
embarrassing for the Bartlett government and a visual demonstration of
the government's incapacity to organise itself.

Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that just days after Premier David
Bartlett's self congratulatory announcement regarding Parliamentary
reform the government today appeared as a rabble, with the Premier
himself choosing not to be present during Question Time despite the
availability of seats on a flight that would have allowed him to attend
Question Time as well as the Ministerial meeting in Darwin tomorrow.   

"The sight of just three lonely Ministers on the Bartlett government's
front bench today was a clear demonstration of the rabble that this
government has become, and its growing desire to avoid answering the
hard questions in Parliament and which makes a mockery of the Premier's
claims of greater accountability," Mr McKim said. 

"If the government cannot organise itself to front up to Parliament in
adequate numbers, how can Tasmanians trust it to govern the state?"




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