David Bartlett
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Thursday, 12 May 2011
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011
David Bartlett today refused to resign from parliament immediately, yet having told Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings he questioned whether he had the passion and commitment to continue. Bruce Montgomery reports from parliament.
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Was it really the wistful look of the young son as his father opened the front door each weekend to go to work that caused Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett to quit? Bruce Montgomery reports on the backroom moves and a premier who mistimed his run to the top.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Labor is about to have another leader whose work experience is limited to being a political operative, with Lara Giddings expected to take over as Tasmanian Premier following David Bartlett’s resignation, writes Richard Farmer.
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Sunday, 23 January 2011
Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett has dropped a bombshell by announcing on Facebook that he will relinquish the leadership, citing family reasons, reports William Bowe.
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Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Down in Tassie the ALP Premier David Bartlett formed a minority government with the help of Greens MPs. And it’s chugging along quite nicely thanks, declares Kate Crowley.
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Monday, 19 April 2010
The latest animosity between Tasmanian Labor Premier David Bartlett and Greens leader Nick McKim is nothing new: the ALP has been loudly and proudly hating on the Greens in the Apple Isle for decades. Sue Neales explains the full bitchy backstory.
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Monday, 19 April 2010
Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim made the right decision to turn down a seat in David Bartlett’s cabinet. If you’re contributing half as many MPs as the senior partner, it’s reasonable to expect more than one ministry out of nine, writes Charles Richardson.
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010
As Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett negotiates with the Greens over how the Tassie parliament will work, it’s possible that Greens may join the Tas cabinet. Is this the start of a broader Labor-Greens alliance?
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Tasmania is to have an interim three-person cabinet for the next week as deliberations continue over the inclusion of one or two Greens, or perhaps other non-Labor MPs, to join the permanent line-up, writes Bruce Montgomery.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Friday, 9 April 2010
So it turns out that in Tasmania’s post-election saga it was Greens leader Nick McKim, who seemed to have played the coolest hand up to that point, who blinked first.
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/ Richard Farmer
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Friday, 9 April 2010
Full marks to Tasmanian Labor Leader David Bartlett. He played the waiting game perfectly.
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Friday, 9 April 2010
In the three-way game of brinkmanship between Will Hodgman, Nick McKim and David Bartlett in Tasmania, the Liberals have shown themselves poor negotiators and even worse strategists, writes Bruce Montgomery.
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Tasmania’s election finally delivers its coup de grace today when Governor Peter Underwood decides who will be premier. It is not a lay down misere, says Bruce Montgomery.
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010
David Bartlett would be doing the Governor a gross disservice constitutionally by advising him to appoint Liberal leader Will Hodgman as Premier, writes Bruce Montgomery.
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The Tasmanian Liberals have about a 60% chance of gaining equal or more seats than Labor, while Labor are a 40% chance of gaining more than the Libs, estimates Peter Tucker.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Thursday, 18 March 2010
Barring something quite unexpected, the new House of Assembly will break 10-10-5 (Labor-Liberal-Green) or something very close to it. However, we’re still in the dark about what will happen next.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
In the interesting but under-appreciated world of state politics, Saturday’s Tasmanian election looks like being something of a milestone: the first of the current crop of state Labor governments to be decisively rejected by the voters.
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Friday, 5 March 2010
After a long FOI battle, Tasmanian Times has its hands on Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett’s appointments diary. Read all the hot dates from little black book.
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett is a busy man. In his first three months after being elected in late May 2008, Bartlett had well over 500 meetings. Bob Burton looks inside his diary.
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010
In David Bartlett’s first three months as Premier, his only meetings on forests policy were with government agencies, companies and industry lobby groups which championed the logging of old-growth forests, writes Bob Burton.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Monday, 1 March 2010
The two noteworthy things in the latest polls from Tasmania are an apparent surge in the Greens vote and the near certainty of a hung parliament. But these two things are not as closely connected as one might think.
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Monday, 22 February 2010
William Bowe starts dissecting the Tasmanian election, starting with the Bass electorate. How will the “iPod-loving, bicycle-riding, latte-sipping trendy” Premier David Bartlett deal with the Liberal seat?
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Tasmania’s state election campaigning got down to the real nitty gritty for an island state yesterday - the debate was all about ferries. Plus, why bother being an ALP member and other political tidbits.
Exit Bartlett, enter Giddings
How the Apple isle is making a minority government work
Will the ALP Green out?
Who gets to meet David Bartlett?
