00:02It's an annual speech where Premiers traditionally talk up Tasmania.
00:06I'm proud and ambitious about where our state is and where we are heading.
00:11Jeremy Rockliffe used the occasion to outline a major bureaucratic shake-up.
00:16Today I'm announcing the Department of State growth will undergo a total transformation.
00:21The Department manages multiple government programs from infrastructure and transport
00:26to housing and planning and tourism and arts.
00:30But over the coming months, it'll be broken up into new agencies,
00:34starting with one that'll be called Building Tasmania.
00:38We'll get things done.
00:39We'll supercharge delivery of the housing, the roads, the infrastructure
00:43our state needs to be fit for the future.
00:46There'll also be a new economic development entity
00:49and another incorporating tourism, events and creative industries.
00:53All up, 250 full-time jobs will go.
00:57Close to a quarter of the department's current workforce.
01:01It will help improve the budget, freeing up more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
01:05This is the first budget savings announcement since Treasury last week warned
01:10that the state's debt levels will rapidly and unsustainably increase
01:15unless the government can find billions of dollars in new savings or revenue.
01:19But there's one thing that the Premier has already ruled out.
01:23We'll not be introducing new or increased taxes.
01:27The Greens say the government is just shuffling the deck chairs
01:30and the opposition says a departmental restructure won't fix the state's problems.
01:36This government lacks ambition, it lacks a plan for the future.
01:39It's run out of ideas, it's run out of the people that got them into government
01:42and now time and excuses is catching up with them.
01:45The government will deliver its state budget in just over two months.
01:49So I do think it's the best fund now for that.
01:49About 6 months, it is a student-based question.
01:52Like a public loan, it's a private loan.
01:53It's a private loan, it's a private loan, it's a private loan.
01:54You're not able to do business.
01:54The government will deliver its state budget in the state.
01:55Now that you can decide what the government does,
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