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WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO PURCHASE OF WEST COAST MELBA LINE?

Is Sturges Part of the Solution, or is He the Problem?
  
Tim Morris MP
Greens Infrastructure Spokesperson

Thursday, 20 August 2009
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today called on Infrastructure Minister Graeme
Sturges to reveal whether any part of the purchase or transfer of the
west coast Melba Line was completed prior to August 1, and if not why
not, which was the deadline for the Bartlett Government to takeover
ownership and management of the Line, and if no purchase or transfer has
yet occurred, to reveal the date that this is expected to occur.

Greens Infrastructure spokesperson Tim Morris MP said Minister Sturges
appears unable to meet rail-related deadlines or answer straightforward
questions about the rail purchase, and called on the Minister to come
clean with the Tasmanian people about the actual timetable for the
purchase of rail assets.

Mr Morris also said that after eleven years in power the State Labor
Government has completely failed to present or manage a strategic
infrastructure plan for Tasmania, and that this failure is now
threatening the ongoing operation of crucial infrastructure assets such
as the Melba Line. 

"The Minister has missed deadline after deadline, and made evasive and
incorrect comments about the timing of the rail sale, and he must now
come out and reveal when his government will takeover the Melba Line, as
well as the reason for the ongoing delays in the sale timetable," said
Mr Morris.

"After eleven years of hard Labor, Tasmania has no strategic
infrastructure plan, an incompetent and evasive Infrastructure Minister,
and a rail sale process that is descending into farce as the Minister
misses deadlines and misleads the people of Tasmania," said Mr Morris.






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