A slightly late #OnThisDay. On 1 October 1982 Sir James Plimsoll was sworn in as the 22nd Governor of Tasmania, succeeding Sir Stanley Charles Burbury. Sir Guy Stephen Montague Green thus stepped down as Administrator. #OTD #history #politas #taspol #taspolitics #politics

Per usual Tory @albomp.bsky.social never misses the opportunity to fanatically dry hump the #TasLibs when in Tasmania.
Zero solidarity with Tasmanian Labor of course. #politas #auspol

Strongly recommend everyone who cares about natural history and cultural research in Tasmania to sign this if you haven't already. It's a parliament website petition so you won't be signing up for spam. #politas

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Josh Willie says “you could cancel the stadium and the budget problems would remain”.

Tas always has budget problems. But cancelling the stadium would improved Tas’ budget problems enormously, and in turn stop the budget getting worse over the next 10 years. Join the dots. #nonewstadium #politas

Appears there is a proposal to merge the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Curator positions at TMAG.

If the government is looking for actual efficiency savings in the public service, just sack everyone including every minister who thinks this is acceptable.

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#Tasmania
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Couldn't happen to a nicer "group" of possibly zero actual Hobart residents - "Hobart First" signs have apparently been deemed by HCC to lack planning permission for not falling clearly within the electoral advertising exemptions. Or something like that. #lgtas #politas

I will give the #politas government all the points if they refer to AI as ‘super intelligence’ from now on.

#OnThisDay 29 September 1909 Sir Harry Barron was sworn in as the 10th Governor of Tasmania, succeeding Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, who retired in May. Sir John Stokell Dodds thus stepped down as Administrator. #OTD #taspol #history #politas

#OnThisDay 29 September 1844 Norfolk Island was transferred from New South Wales to Van Diemen's Land. #OTD #history #norfolkisland #ni #nfk #auspol #auspolitics #nswpol #nswpolitics #vdl #vandiemensland #politas #taspol #taspolitics #politics

With the (now) conclusion of #lgtas nominations, the time has finally come for the Graph of Futility! Despite everything, there is still a sea of candidates you've never heard of and will never hear of again. A bespoke Robson Rotation matrix is required in Hobart. #politas

Nominations for the unfilled #lgtas positions have been taken and announced. Three candidates exist for the two King Island positions, EIGHT candidates exist for the one Tasman position. Where the hell were you a week ago? #politas

#LarissaWaters - @larissawaters.bsky.social :

Some important news from me 💚

#AUSPOL #Greens #AustralianGreens #KidneyDisease #QLDpol #NSWpol #SpringSt #PoliTAS #SAparli #WApol #NTpol #ACTpol #TheGreens

Experts sounding alarm bells to Tas. Liberal government on massive projects in Tasmania with no social licence and backed by big corporate interests. And where the corporates behind AI data centres are sponsoring Tas AFL teams in a PR move. What could possibly go wrong? #nonewstadium #politas

The Tasmanian Liberals are no friends of the arts, culture, or the sciences. They only care about the three "effs." Forestry, fish-farming, and football. #politas

genuinely beginning to feel like the folks who are pro data centres in tasmania must be collectively subject to some kind of gas leak that impacts their cognition

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The Tasmanian Liberals secretly proposed similar cuts to TMAG in 2014/15. The then Board and Director rejected and fought the cuts. The plans were never public.

The difference now? A Board full of Liberal government appointees.
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