NO MORE POLITICAL GAMES ON SOLAR FEED IN TARIFFS

Kim Booth MP
Greens Energy Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said that as the time draws closer for a decision to be made on Tasmania’s feed-in tariff, the Liberal Party was still playing political games with businesses and livelihoods.
Greens Energy spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the Greens were still the only party with a post-FRC policy for [...]

May 13, 2013

GREENS PROPOSE FLEXIBLE ‘SLIDING SCALE’ FEED IN TARIFF: And Provide Surety to Customers & Retailers in Transition to FRC

Kim Booth MP
Greens Energy spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today detailed an innovative policy to introduce a sliding scale to secure feed-in-tariff and distributed generation incentives in a post Full Retail Competition (FRC) environment.
Greens Energy spokesperson Kim Booth MP said that a strong transitional arrangement for feed-in-tariffs while the electricity reform is achievable, appropriate and necessary, saying [...]

April 11, 2013

GREENS SEEK FAIR GO FOR STATE SUPERANNUANTS

Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader
The Tasmanian Greens today pursued a fair go for state superannuants, securing the support of the Labor Party for an actuarial study into the indexation of pension payments by the Retirement Benefits Fund.
In State Parliament today, Greens Leader Nick McKim MP brought on a motion to examine the costs associated with giving [...]

March 20, 2013

A BIT MORE MATURITY NEEDED IN TASMANIA’S TAX DEBATE

Tim Morris MP
Greens Treasury spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said political parties engaged in childish scare mongering over state-based tax reform were undermining economic productivity and treating the concerns of the Tasmanian community with distain.
Greens Treasury spokesperson Tim Morris MP today welcomed calls by the head of the GST distribution review, Nick Greiner, for a debate [...]

November 6, 2012

SOUTHWOOD DEAL REVEALS MORE DECEIT BY FORESTRY TASMANIA

Kim Booth MP
Greens Forestry Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens said serious questions hung over Forestry Tasmania’s secretive decision to purchase the Southwood sawmill from Gunns, and enter into leasing arrangements with a third party.
Greens Forestry spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the deal was another act of deceit levelled against the Tasmanian taxpayer by a rogue organisation hell [...]

October 16, 2012

MOODY’S DOWNGRADE CONFIRMS NEED FOR TAX REFORM

Tim Morris MP
Greens Treasury Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens said today’s credit downgrade by ratings agency Moody’s was further confirmation of the urgent need for root-and-branch reform of Tasmania’s taxation system.
Greens Treasury spokesperson Tim Morris MP today renewed calls for the Premier to restart the valuable work of the now-defunct State Tax Review Panel, by requesting Treasury [...]

October 3, 2012

GREENS UNVEIL 21st CENTURY ENERGY VISION

Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader

Kim Booth MP
Greens Energy Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today announced their response to the recommendations of the independent Electricity Supply Industry Expert Panel established by the Parliament in response to a Greens’ initiative.
Greens Leader Nick McKim said the policy delivered a transition to a modern, high-tech, low carbon economy, energy security, and the [...]

August 17, 2012

GST HIKE IS NOT THE ANSWER: Tax Reform Should Start at Home

Tim Morris MP
Greens Treasury Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said that Paul Lennon’s call for an increase in the GST rate [1] was misplaced, and that the immediate focus should be on the state-based taxation reform process, which was deliberately derailed by his former-party and the Liberal party last year.
Greens Treasury spokesperson Tim Morris MP said [...]

July 11, 2012

HYDRO’S GRAND PLANS ARE SELLING TASMANIANS SHORT

Kim Booth MP
Greens Energy spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said that Hydro Tasmania’s retail arm, Momentum, is offering mainland consumers carbon-price free electricity, which risks undercutting the carbon-price dividend flowing back to the State to benefit Tasmanians.
Greens Energy spokesperson Kim Booth MP said Hydro, instead of concentrating on its core business of delivering energy to consumers, [...]

June 8, 2012

HYDRO BETRAYS TASMANIAN POWER CUSTOMERS: As Momentum Gives Away Value to Mainland Football Clubs

Kim Booth MP
Greens Energy Spokesperson
Tasmanian Greens Energy spokesperson Kim Booth MP said power users should be alarmed that Hydro Tasmania, via its wholly owned retailer, Momentum, was offering carbon price free power to mainland consumers to the exclusion of Tasmanian small business and Mum and Dad electricity users.
“Hydro Tasmania is now acting as a rogue [...]

May 28, 2012