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Share on Twitter Tasmanian Liberal Premier Peter Gutwein is gambling on an early election to cash in on his government’s popularity due to its management of the COVID pandemic. It is a reasonable strategy, given how voters in Queensland and Western Australia have rewarded their governments in recent months. Mr Gutwein announced the 1 May election on 26 March – a year earlier than it is due. This was possible because, while Tasmania has a four-year maximum term, it does not have a fixed term, unlike all other states and territories. In 2018 the Liberals, under then-Premier Will...

Normal text size Very large text size When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. She’d “crashed and burned”, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmania’s north-west coast. For 18 months she healed,...

Premier Jason Kenney issued the following statement on the death of Elaine McCoy: Some parts of this page will not display. JavaScript is not available in this browser or may be turned off. “I am saddened to learn of the death of the Honourable Senator Elaine McCoy, who passed away in Ottawa this morning. “Senator McCoy was devoted to public service. Following her studies at the University of Alberta, she became senior counsel to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, before being elected to the Legislative Assembly as the Member for Calgary West, where she succeeded former Premier Peter...