{"id":56614,"date":"2025-08-10T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:26:07","slug":"independent-mlc-ruth-forrest-would-be-treasurer-in-tasmanian-labor-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56614\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent MLC Ruth Forrest would be treasurer in Tasmanian Labor government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tasmanian Labor will appoint independent upper house MP Ruth Forrest as treasurer \u2014 if the party is able to form minority government when parliament resumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Labor has confirmed a no-confidence motion will be moved once parliament resumes on August 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ruth Forrest is the independent member of the Legislative Council for the seat of Murchison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">As the most recent chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Public Accounts, she has led a committee tasked with investigating the bungled delivery of the Spirit of Tasmania vessels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Ms Forrest has a tremendous understanding of the enormity of the task at hand, and the ins-and-outs of the position Tasmania&#8217;s budget finds itself in,&#8221; Mr Winter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Ms Forrest has championed the need for budget repair for many years now, and I am pleased she has accepted my invitation to take up the role should the House of Assembly crossbench decide to support a Labor government on 19 August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In June, the state&#8217;s treasury department found Tasmania was headed for $13 billion of debt by 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Both major parties are working to earn support from the crossbench, after failing to secure a majority at the July snap election.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Labor will appoint independent upper house MP Ruth Forrest as treasurer \u2014 if the party is able&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,4268,3786,1788,4273,46312,46749,44,46748,8539,2801,37652],"class_list":["post-56614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-election","tag-government","tag-labor","tag-liberal","tag-mlc","tag-murchisson","tag-news","tag-ruth-forrest","tag-tas","tag-tasmania","tag-treasurer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}