Mark Shelton,Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management
Labor’s desperate rush to delete a Facebook post has exposed its ongoing identity crisis, despite Rebecca White’s recent failed attempts to conceal splits in its ranks.
Tasmanian Labor’s 2019 State Conference Caring for Tasmanians Platform included “a harm minimisation-focused decriminalisation of small volume use and possession of illicit drugs”, which shows Labor is still in lockstep with the Greens and their left-wing policies.
In a weak attempt to please the Right faction, Rebecca White and Labor backflipped on this position to support the Government’s legislation to ban ice pipes – and then naively tried to fool Tasmanians with an opportunistic Facebook post highlighting their backflip.
After coming under sustained fire from the party faithful on the post, Labor has raced to delete their gaffe, taking it off the “Tasmanian Labor” Facebook page timeline in an attempt to stem the flow of hundreds of angry comments.
Tasmanians can trust the Hodgman majority Liberal Government to deliver its commitments and to keep our community safe, which includes banning the sale of ice pipes.
We have a plan and we are delivering it.
In contrast, Rebecca White and Labor have no plan, they do not know what they stand for when it comes to illicit drugs, they simply cannot be trusted to keep Tasmanians safe – and given half a chance they would do another deal with the Greens.
