After months of campaigning against the pay freeze, Bryan Green has now admitted he does actually in fact support it.
Labor have spoken out publicly against the pay freeze legislation on 29 separate instances but yesterday the Opposition Leader told ABC Local Radio:
"People might want to run the argument that Labor has been opposed to the pay cuts. We've never said that. What we've said is that we're opposed to the process that the Treasurer and the Liberal Government undertook to get to this point. "
Yet in Hansard on September 17 Lyons Labor MHA Rebecca White said:
"One of the savings strategies we all know is the wage cut, a bill that we may be debating later tonight, but I would like to put on the record again the Labor Party's firm opposition to any such measure."
Either Labor supported the pay freeze all along and were too cowardly to break ranks with the unions or they've finally admitted that the pay freeze was the right way forward.
The Liberal Government was clear that if the bill did not pass another 500 of the embedded Labor-Green job cuts would have to occur.
Bryan Green knew this but chose to score political points instead of saving jobs.
The Liberal Government was voted in to fix the budget mess and that is what we are doing.
Our first priority is to the Tasmanian people and the future of this state – and that means governing decisively especially when it comes to fixing the budget mess.