Right now, Tasmania’s billion dollar ferry fleet is scattered across the globe like a poorly-planned backpacking trip – and Jeremy Rockliff still can’t tell us how much taxpayers have paid to keep Spirit IV hidden in Scotland.
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Spirit I is heading toward dry dock in Singapore.
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Spirit II is the only ship currently operating on Bass Strait.
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Spirit IV is floating off the coast of West Africa.
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And Spirit V is still stuck in Finland.
From Devonport to Singapore, West Africa to Finland – Tasmania’s Spirits are anywhere but where they should be: serving Tasmanians.
The Spirits fiasco is the defining feature of Jeremy Rockliff’s latest minority government. Tasmanians deserve to know how much more Jeremy Rockliff has spent to bury his political disaster on the other side of the world.
Despite the fact Spirit IV left Scotland a week ago, and TT-Line is on the brink of breaching its debt limit, Jeremy Rockliff has continued to cover up the true cost of the Spirits disaster by refusing Labor’s request for an urgent Treasury briefing and repeated calls to come clean on the cost.
Spirit IV has left Scotland, it’s halfway down the African coast, and Tasmanians are meant to believe Jeremy Rockliff still has no idea how much it cost to keep it there?
It’s time for Jeremy Rockliff to front up and release the full cost of this disaster.
Josh Willie MP
Shadow Treasurer
