to be a priority have lnuiagshed years, and some have been so poorly prepared and managed they have been delayed.To illustrate just how crippling it is to have so few ministers, here's the Deputy Premier Lara Gidding's Portfolios:Attorney -GeneralMinister for JusticeMinister for Healthhere's David Llewellyn's portfolios:Primary Industries and WaterEnergy and ResourcesPlanningOr how about Michelle O'Byrne?Environment, Parks and HeritageTourism and the ArtsSport and RecreationHospitalityAre you seriously going to suggest that it's possible for even a very competent person to manage such significant portfolios well? I presume you're not so foolish to argue that just because Tasmania is small this somehow reduces the amount of work involved to some trivial amount per portfolio. Or how about the conflicts of interest created by having Ministers responsible for multiple portfolios where their interest's clash?Seriously, anyone who sees the reduction in the size of the Tasmanian parliament as simply some sort of shallow political tactic with similarly shallow consequences that only matter to one party really don't get democracy, sorry.

by Giovanni 04:24:18 PM 2012.10.03