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Pre-election budget posing big questions
countdown is on to this week's state budget which may be the last for the Premier and Treasurer, Lara Giddings. Just how the Government responds to financial pressures bearing down on the state coffers will be revealed on Thursday when the covers come off from ABC (Australia) Online Read more »
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Fires eat up state coffers
Lara Giddings will not say who the winners and losers will be ahead of Thursday's tight State Budget, but has promised the core sectors of infrastructure and health services will be among the financial priorities in 2013-14. At a Budget preview in her Murray from The Mercury - Voice of Tasmania Read more »
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Revenue drops increase budget hole
disability and education. With falling GST receipts, a struggling economy and the unforseen costs of the January bushfires, Lara Giddings has had to tighten the belt. Funding the state's share of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been promised in from ABC (Australia) Online Read more »
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Get with the times, says Lara
Lara Giddings says she gets put in a box because of her gender and women are still held back by the "glass ceiling". The comments were prompted by an angry caller to her weekly Power to the People talkback segment on Heart FM's Kim and Dave Show yesterday. from The Mercury - Voice of Tasmania Read more »
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Giddings told to use tough love
and Treasurer Lara Giddings must be bold and make tough decisions in next week's State Budget or risk worsening Tasmania's economic woes, leading economists warn. After this week's Federal Budget revealed a plunge in GST payments to the state of $96 million, from The Mercury - Voice of Tasmania Read more »
