Delay to Labor state conference bid to shore up Rebecca White’s leadership, say Liberals
UPDATED: LABOR has rejected State Government claims it delayed its state conference to shore up Rebecca White’s leadership.
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LABOR has rejected State Government claims it delayed its state conference to shore up Rebecca White’s leadership.
Labor state secretary Stuart Benson said the party moved the event from July to September 8 to prevent a clash with the Braddon by-election.
He said Health Minister Michael Ferguson surely had better things to be doing that worrying about the Labor Party.
“Mr Ferguson is presiding over a health and hospital system in crisis. The Royal Hobart Hospital today remains on emergency footing as Mr Ferguson finds the time to speculate about Labor rather than address the health emergency,” Mr Benson said.
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“Tasmania is facing a housing crisis and the Government has no plan to address it.
“In the midst of the mess this government has created if Mr Ferguson has nothing better to do than try to make mileage out of a change of dates for Labor’s state conference, Tasmanians are in more trouble than they could have imagined.
“If Mr Ferguson worked half as hard on his actual job as Rebecca White, perhaps Tasmania would not be immersed in a critical health crisis.”
Mr Ferguson today claimed the Labor conference had been cancelled “in a desperate bid to outlast and out-survive leadership aspirant David O’Byrne”.
“Ms White is doing whatever it takes to delay or stop the release of Labor’s damning review of her failed 2018 election bid, which was due to be revealed at the state conference in the first week of July,” he said.
“It is clear that whatever has come out of the past month’s secret interviews of Labor members involved in the disastrous election is not good news for Ms White.
“Ms White led Labor to its third worst election result ever, she failed to win the recent Prosser election and a recent EMRS poll showed her honeymoon period is well and truly over.”
Mr Ferguson said Ms White had bean “missing in action for days on end” and was invisible on the Braddon campaign trial.
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