For those reading the Sunday Examiner today (10 March 2013), you will have noted my Labor opponent again over-stating his achievements while responding to questions on the Examiner’s Grill forum. He claims to have been “instrumental” in improving Tasmania’s health system and that Labor’s record is “second to none.” Yet statistics regularly show that Tasmania [...] Continue reading » » »
Tamar silt promises
During his appearance on the Examiner’s Grill forum today (6 March 2013), my Labor opponent wrote that he had been “working with the flood authority and Launceston City Council to evaluate the effects of the recent racking (sic) program…in the Tamar River.” This continues his practice of talking big about Tamar River solutions but never actually [...] Continue reading » » »
Lazy journalists?
In speeches to Parliament last year, Labor MHR Geoff Lyons claimed that his government had “saved Launceston” (Examiner, 5 November) and that journalists were “lazy” for not highlighting his achievements (Examiner, 27 August). More recently he reprimanded the media for failing to report that he had “rebuilt most primary schools in Northern Tasmania” and claimed [...] Continue reading » » »
Geoff Lyons blames the media for not reporting his achievements
Today’s editorial in the Launceston Examiner (3 February 2013) takes my Labor opponent to task for some pretty amazing claims! EDITOR MARTIN Gilmour says: There are lots of reasons why politicians lose popularity and elections. Sometimes they lose touch with their electorate and think they know better than the voters. Sometimes they get so wrapped [...] Continue reading » » »
