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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Is there no end to what the salmon industry thinks it can get away with in our waters? Full marks to independent journalist, Bob Burton, and MLC, Meg Webb, for digging out a dirty secret. Where the hell was the EPA in all this? tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/salmon-...

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Tasmanian salmon firm confirms use of antibiotic at hatchery

A major Tasmanian salmon producer used an antibiotic to treat a disease outbreak at a hatchery in Hobart’s water catchment, but made no public announcement.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A sad and fond farewell to John Kudelka, Tasmanian political cartoonist, Walkley Award winner and much loved for his quizzical, sometimes searing take on events and politics in our state and around the nation. John died far too young at 53.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Thanks to the great organisers of Party in the Paddock for inviting me to speak to a great audience of all ages about being an Independent MP and how important it is for all of us to be engaged with the democratic process & the future of our island. Thanks, too, to all the volunteers!.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I call on the government and the responsible ministers to ensure an immediate, full and transparent investigation with no cover-ups pulsetasmania.com.au/news/mp-rais...

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MP raises concerns over ‘rotting fish flesh’ washed up on Verona Sands beach

Peter George believes the remains are from a nearby salmon farm…

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“abandoning a stadium management deal in Queensland for failing to meet obligations” would act as a grenade to their ambitions in Tasmania.3/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

the AFL is essentially acknowledging it can’t run a profitable stadium in a Gold Coast market that is bigger than the whole of Tasmania. As TT reports: The source explicitly suggests the AFL is withholding this news to manage political optics, fearing that “abandoning a stadium management 2/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Dec 2: A fascinating piece from the Tasmanian Times today suggesting the AFL is abandoning its management deal for the People First stadium on the Gold Coast. If the TT’s whistleblower is right – and the news outlet has confidence in the information – 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

when Standard and Poor’s, the other big international ratings agency, reports on Tasmania perhaps as early as next week. Want more info? Check out Leg Co member, Ruth Forrest’s blog: ruthforrest.com.au/opinion/mood...

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Moody’s Downgrades Tasmania’s Credit Rating to Aa3 – Ruth Forrest

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A downgrade means higher interest rates on borrowings that are already out of hand with the Treasury warning we’re like a family buying weekly groceries on the never-never. Expect a similar outcome when Standard and Poor’s, the other big international ratings agency, 2/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

With the 15 members of the Leg Co on the brink of debating next week whether the Mac Point stadium build should go ahead, they’ll have yet one more thorny issue to ponder with Tasmania’s credit rating downgrade by the ratings agency, Moody’s. 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The weather is being anything but kind to my hardy friends getting out on roadsides everyday to promote the No Stadium rally next Sunday at 11am. Join them tomorrow morning from 7.30 at the top of Macquarie St, opposite the Southern Outlet. Wrap up warmly and bring along a jacket!

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A great start to rebooting Voices of Franklin on Thursday at Robbie Brown’s, Kingston Beach. The focus? Making Franklin ever more Independent in state & federal elections. Thank you, to everyone who gathered to hear about the growing Independent movement www.voicesoffranklin.org/home

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

No team without the Macquarie Point stadium? That mantra just doesn’t hold true when you strip it down. Here’s a discussion with author and journalist, Richard Flanagan, on why it’s perfectly reasonable to say “Yes Team, No Stadium” - Pt1/2

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

For a state struggling to educate Tasmanians for the 21st century, swinging fee hikes and course cuts is the last thing we need. Looks like budget cuts in all the wrong places to help pay for the AFL stadium we don’t need and can’t afford. #politas

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

avid proponent of an AFL team for Tassie. Where we are today is the result of a corrupted process in which decisions were made behind closed doors and consultation nothing more than cover. The fight goes on. 2/2

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

More spin than a laundrette is my quick takeaway from the government’s lazy response to the Tasmanian Planning Commission’s deep analysis of the Macquarie Point Stadium proposal. Frankly, it reads like a consultant’s report created using ChatGPT that wouldn’t convince even the most avid 1/2

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

to highlight the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and to deliver aid and medical assistance. 3/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

to their territorial waters as part of the freedom flotilla. Please share this video and call on @senatorpennywong to take the strongest possible action on Madeleine’s behalf, and on behalf of all other Australians detained on peaceful convoys sailing to highlight 2/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Tasmanian ship’s captain Madeleine Habib has been detained after the boat The Conscience was intercepted in international waters off the coast of Gaza in recent hours. The ship was carrying 92 passengers, all journalists and medical staff, with the mission to open sea access for Gazans 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Thanks to Save Our Marine Environment and Environment Tasmania for the honour of speaking before the Franklin Palais showing of the magnificent film, Ocean with David Attenborough, to a full house on Saturday evening.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It’s been a long time coming but at last some movement on making Tasmania’s government and its decision making more transparent and accountable. Last week we saw the report on our Right to Information and it was pretty damning. Its recommendations for change will be hard for the government to resist

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Now is the time to go back to the AFL and say we deserve a team but we do not deserve to be driven into state bankruptcy by your demands.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Tasmanian planning commission has come out with a very clear verdict on the Macquarie point Stadium. It’s not in the right place, it doesn’t come at the right cost and it will be an imposition on future generations as the costs of running the place mount. 1/2

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A mea culpa today, I’m sorry to say. But if you set out to be transparent as an MP, you have to admit your failings while claiming your successes.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I met with members of the Leslie Vale Community Group tackling real community issues - the dangerous intersection where Leslie Vale Road intersects with the Huon Highway, blasts from the nearby blue metal quarry, foot tracks & a planned mobile phone tower.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Lone MPs have little influence over such decisions but I’m already getting angry and distressed messages from people who admire - and benefited from - Rotorlift’s quarter century of rescue operations in difficult terrain and dangerous conditions. 2/2

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Tasmania’s locally owned helicopter rescue service, Rotorlift, has lost its bid for a new $350million 10-year contract to a mainland company. I met owner, Allana Corbin, a week ago raising issues with the tender process that she felt unfairly discriminated against Rotorlift. 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Still, now that’s all behind us there’s a very willing cross bench determined to make this parliamentary term effective, collaborative … and survive four years. I reckon one thing we should really push for is a mandatory, legislated four-year term! 3/3 #politas

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

of the cross bench voted with Labor whose MPs looked lonely and dispirited when a division was called and they stood alone. Just about every cross bencher made it clear that voting against Labor didn’t mean there was much (if any) confidence in the Liberals of Jeremy Rockliff. 2/5

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

What might have been a long day in Parliament with high drama over Labor’s motion for a no confidence motion in Jeremy Rockliff’s Liberals turned out to be something of a damp squib. You might think that’s a good thing. Labor lost the motion overwhelmingly when not one member 1/5

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Liberals are home and hosed. Labor’s no-confidence motion against the Rockliff government will fail, pre-determined by five Greens announcing they won’t support it. This is more to do with Labor’s ineptitude in abysmally failing to work towards genuine compromise and collaboration than anything.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

watching on but globally, minority government discussions and negotiations can go on for weeks if not months - and in one case almost 2 years! In 2018 Sweden took 131 days! Belgium once took 652 days and the sky didn’t fall! End.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Discussion continue with Liberal and Labor party leaders over the policies they’ll pursue if they take the reins of government next week. This evening it was Labor’s Dean Winter talking to the whole cross bench about policy issues of concern. It may seem all very slow and tedious if you’re 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

about diseased fish, saying only there isn’t a “reportable” mass mortality event. There’s little transparency in the industry but with my cross bench colleagues, I’m trying to get to the bottom of what’s really going on as an early spring and warming waters is very concerning. 3/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

industry urgently seeking permission to administer a new antibiotic never used in our waterways before because the original treatment was proving ineffective. Yet this morning the salmon industry said there’s nothing to see here. Meanwhile the caretaker agriculture minister dodged the question 2/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Is there or isn’t there a farmed salmon disease outbreak in off Roaring Beach at the south of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel? Depends on who you speak to. Last night I got a call from caretaker premier, Jeremy Rockliff about a “serious issue” involving disease in salmon pens and the 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Some signs of hope today that the Liberals have grasped the nettle of working as a minority government when caretaker Treasurer, Eric Abetz, convened a meeting with cross benchers to discuss collaboration in getting the state out of the ever increasing budget black hole.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Regarding minister Murray Watts decision on Macquarie harbour: “Any government with a conscience would have encouraged the transition of the industry out of our waterways by increasing lease fees and imposing a resource rental tax on their turnover.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

3/3 Give and take is what minority government is all about. So good signs of progress but both the old parties will still have to show greater trustworthiness and goodwill than they have in the past to win over the cross bench.

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

as Treasurer has blossomed into reality. Labor says it’ll appoint Ruth if it takes power in a parliamentary confidence motion on August 19. Meanwhile the Libs are promising to end the subsidies for greyhound racing by 2029 and to reverse their plans to expand native forest logging. 2/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Some optimistic signs this weekend that both Labor and Liberal parties are getting to grips with the idea of what good minority government looks like. Amazingly, an idea I floated as a “dream” several weeks ago of appointing the very smart independent MLC, Ruth Forrest 1/3

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Peter George @indy4franklin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

2/2 sits for the first time. Quite how they manage to do do that without working with the cross bench chosen by Tasmanian voters is anyone’s guess. Stay tuned is my advice.

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