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The election of Michelle O’Byrne as Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly on May 14, 2024 marked a significant departure from parliamentary convention, raising questions about stability, leadership, and media coverage. The decision’s implications are all the result of Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s inaction. Meanwhile, the mainstream media’s response has focused on Rockliff’s inadequacy with barely a mention of Michelle O’Byrne’s role of Speaker.
Are we quietly accepting socialism while ignoring our Westminster traditions?
Terry Barnes had this to say in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:
The prolific Michael de Percy has a look at the fiasco that is the Tasmanian parliament’s successful no-confidence motion against the Liberal minority government premier, Jeremy Rockliff. He rightly homes in the Labor speaker, Michelle O’Byrne, disgracefully defying and trashing Westminster convention to break the tie on the motion by voting for it, not against. There’s something rotten in the state of Tasmania, and it’s not just the moribund economy. Is there any way the rest of Australia can make Tasmania go and join New Zealand? They deserve each other, politically.
My latest opinion piece in The Spectator Australia, Tasmania quietly points to our socialist future.
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