If you are a
mainlander and did know about the election, did you really care about it?
While there
are the now usual raft of independent and small party candidates, the
Government will be formed by one of the major parties.
Unusually in
this era of bland leadership and small target policies, there are several
vastly different policy positions driving support for one side or the other.
The
Tasmanian Labour Party has taken a stand on poker machines.
Citing the damage
to families and society in general of these highly addictive money drainage
machines, Labour has promised to remove them from pubs and clubs.
The Liberals
fully support the status quo.
A clear
difference indeed.
The other
clear difference has only become public today and almost by accident.
It also
represents a significant change of policy by the ruling Liberal Party
Given this
policy shift, it is surprising what was agreed some weeks ago, has not been spruiked
far and wide. After all, politics is about selling your policies to an
electorate in order to receive their vote.
Then again,
maybe the Liberals wanted to keep this one quiet.
The
Tasmanian Liberals have agreed with the Sporting Shooters to relax gun control
laws in Tasmania.
They have
committed to longer licence terms and to allowing semi-automatic weapons.
I am
speechless.
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