The Liberal Government's first budget delivers on our promises, begins fixing the budget mess and lays the foundations for the future.
Our budget has been well received by Tasmanians. According to a REACHtel poll of 2,600 voters last week 64 per cent of Tasmanians were supportive of it.
The budget gets the balance right; delivering on our promises, fixing the budget mess, while not cutting too hard.
A key part of delivering the balance is the wage freeze, which is an integral part of the budget and prevents an additional 500 jobs being cut.
If the pay freeze is not passed, we will have no option but to make equivalent savings, which equates to reducing the size of the public service by an additional 500 positions.
We're fighting for the pay freeze because we're fighting to save those 500 jobs.
During the election we said we would fix the budget mess, and that's what we're doing.