It's a stretch to believe that all of Labor's spending in Tasmania can be objectively justified and not a single red cent was committed purely to influence votes, writes Nick Cater.
The Derwent Colosseum - as the project has been dubbed - has many local critics, as the Prime Minister discovered last week when his press conference in Hobart was interrupted by hecklers.
In Tasmania, more than half of the voters live in marginal seats giving its historic reputation as Australia’s Sicily when it comes to bribery and coercion. “The way that they view taxpayer funds as being the same as Liberal and National party funds, is not the model that the Labor government will follow,” he said.
This will be welcome news for anybody caught short at the Mount Montgomery Road carpark in the Tasmanian seat of Braddon, where Labor made a commitment to build a $431,000 toilet block, or the Albo super-dunny as it is likely to be known. The youngsters of Braddon will want for nothing as federal grants of more than $3 million transform playgroups, childcare centres and expand early learning services.
It is a stretch to believe that all of this spending can be objectively justified and not a single red cent was committed purely to influence votes. If Albanese was looking for applause, he should not have flown to Hobart last weekend, or perhaps should have gone with the offer of bread rather than circuses since cost-of-living pressures are biting hard on the Pork Barrel Isle.
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