-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor plot to grandstand on Tasmanian job losses backfires in Senate

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 July 1998-AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT: Labor plot to grandstand on Tasmanian job losses backfires in Senate (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:020798 A Labor move to gain political mileage out of the recent tragic spate of job losses in Tasmania backfired today when the Senate rejected an ALP motion that sought to blame the Government.

The Labor Opposition had endorsed an urgency motion by Tasmanian Labor Senator Shayne Murphy seeking to condemn the Government over its handling of the wood and paper industry. Tasmanian Liberal Senators Gibson, Watson and Abetz reminded the Senate that it was Labor that cost Tasmania the Wesley Mill project. They said Labor sacrificed this mill, and its hundreds of jobs, to buy the support of the Greens. This exercise...