Bryan Green needs to face reality and tell Tasmanians the truth – they left the Budget in a mess.
Labor left the Budget in an appalling state and we need to fix Tasmania's finances now so we don't need to make harsher cuts in future.
Fixing the Budget mess is no easy task. Labor and the Greens left $1.1 billion in cumulative deficits, net debt rising to more than $400 million and 1,000 embedded job cuts in the Budget.
They also raided the superannuation provision account, leaving a $5.5 billion unfunded superannuation liability, and on their watch public sector wages have blown out by $162 millions of dollars more than forecast.
Labor left the Budget in a mess and even with strong fiscal discipline this year the deficit will be nearly $300 million.
We can't keep living off the credit card and leave the bill for future generations to pick up.
We have a Plan and our Plan is the Budget – which included a pay freeze providing around $178 million in savings.
After months of Labor, the Greens and the unions campaigning against the pay freeze, it is now off the table and the caravan has moved on. We made that clear more than two weeks ago.
We wanted to save as many jobs as possible but the unions, encouraged and supported by Labor and the Greens, thwarted every attempt to do so.
The Unions and Labor chose a pay rise over saving jobs and any additional job losses are on their heads.