Before anyone can take Mr Winter's latest attempted attack on TT Line seriously, he needs to enumerate the 'three' payments about which he complains.
He has only listed two.
The latest attack embarrassingly exposes Mr Winter's commercial inexperience and ignorance.
Faced with the shelling of the steel manufacturer in the Ukraine and resultant increased cost in materials, it was common sense and commercial reality for TT Line to vary the fixed price contract with the shipbuilder while retaining the status of a fixed price contract.
To not do so would've exposed TT Line to acting in bad faith and destroying the vitally important relationship between the builder and customer.
Is Mr Winter really pretending to suggest his commercial expertise is superior to that of the TT Line Board?
Further, any modicum of commercial know-how would tell Mr Winter that commercial in confidence considerations are needed to ensure TT Line got the best deal for Tasmanians.
If TT Line had followed Labor's apparent advice, Tasmanians would have been left with two half-finished vessels on the far side of the world, hundreds of millions of dollars extra in costs and an even longer delay in the delivery of the job and economy boosting new ferries.
Instead, we have the first new Spirit of Tasmania vessel successfully completing its first sea trial in the open seas off Finland and the second new vessel due to be launched shortly.
Under our 2030 Strong Plan for Tasmania's Future, we are investing in regional tourism and sustainably growing our visitor economy.
Mr Winter's latest effort unfortunately demonstrates, yet again, that Labor has provided Tasmanians with another Leader of the Opposition more focussed on cheap attacks than the long term good of the State.
