We need investment in our public services so they can strengthen our Tasmanian communities.
Services like:
- Our hospitals, which care for the sick and get them back on their feet.
- Our Parks & Wildlife Service, which protects our world-renowned natural and cultural heritage.
- Legal Aid, Prisons and Community Corrections, working at their limits to keep communities safe and break the cycle of re-offending.
- TasTAFE, who grows the skills Tasmania needs so we can build back better from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Our Child Safety Advice & Referral Line, caring for Tassie’s most vulnerable kids from the epidemic of family violence.
- Housing Tasmania, who strive every day to help Tasmanians experiencing homelessness to have a roof over their heads.
Our services have been eroded by a decade long obsession with austerity and privatisation – the divisive ideological belief that a shrinking public sector is a good thing, that budgets must be cut, working conditions dismantled and that putting profit before people somehow makes things better.
Time and time again we’ve heard claims that efficiencies gained by cutting and selling off public assets will free up resources to be invested where they’re most needed. In reality, Tasmanians get nothing.
Cuts have undermined the services that generations of Tasmanians have built.
The public interest, not profit, should come first in any decision about the future of public services in Tasmania. Public services belong to all of us.
We need to keep them ours.
Tasmanians have a right to know whether the politicians who represent us will safeguard our public services before we vote on who will form the next government.
We’re calling on all political parties to commit to an end to all privatisation, outsourcing, and erosion of public assets for private profit.
Privatisation of Tasmania's Public Sector under the Rockliff Liberal Government
Cuts have undermined the services that generations of Tasmanians have built.
The public interest, not profit, should come first in any decision about the future of public services in Tasmania. Public services belong to all of us.
We need to keep them ours.
Tasmanians have a right to know whether the politicians who represent us will safeguard our public services before we vote on who will form the next government.
We’re calling on all political parties to commit to an end to all privatisation, outsourcing, and erosion of public assets for private profit.
We need a watchdog to
call out privatisation in Tasmania.
Dob in privatisation and privatisation-by-stealth in your agency (“outsourcing,” “public-private partnerships”, and other weasel words), or share your experience of how privatisation has hurt Tasmania.
Family Violence Counselling Support Service
Outsourcing of case management to private operator CentraCare.
2015After Hours Tasmanian Devil Hotline
This service used to be provided by expert DPIPWE Wildlife Officers, and has now been completely outsourced to Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary.
2018Advice and Referral Line - Child Safety Service
NGOs are now being permitted to make triage calls and taking over roles previously entrusted only to our public service.
2018TasTAFE Removed from State Service
TasTAFE (Skills and Training Business) Bill 2021 passes, forcing State Servants onto Fair Work Act private award and corporatising Tassie's sole public VET provider.2021
