Premier Jeremy Rockliff has missed his own deadline, failing to update Tasmanians about his local content commitment to our new Spirit of Tasmania vessels.
A motion passed by parliament last month sought to obtain "a list of local content spending to date for the new Spirits and the total value of those purchases".
Labor wanted the information to be tabled by 5pm on 28 November, but the Liberals, along with crossbenchers Miriam Beswick, Rebecca Pentland, Craig Garland, Andrew Jenner and David O'Byrne amended the motion to push this date back until 5pm on 10 December.
Now the silence is deafening, not only from the Liberals but from the crossbenchers who let the government off the hook - not supporting a House of Assembly enquiry and not ordering the government to table the documents in Parliament.
Getting information out of the Premier and his government throughout this extraordinary Spirits fiasco has been like getting blood from a stone.
The Premier still hasn't been able to adequately explain how his farcical plan to lease the ships won't put the local fit out, local jobs and local businesses at risk.
Does he plan to complete the fit out in Scotland, and then complete it again when the Spirits finally arrive in Tasmania? And if not, what will he tell the local contractors who have been relying on his final fit out promise?
Tasmanians have learned that you can't trust the Liberals. If the Premier has nothing to hide like he claims, why does he keep on obstructing the truth from getting out?
Josh Willie MP
Shadow Treasurer
