Dr Tom Baxter

Adjunct Assoc Professor @GovInstAust #Governance #FOI Consultant #Hobart #Tasmania
@UTAS 2003-2019 Usual caveats my views

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

AI may sack us because we failed to reply to its out of hours message in time! @QandA @sallymcmanus

[Meg Webb @MegWebbTweets]

My thoughts in @themercurycomau ahead of tomorrow's state election. #politas
"Former Australian of the Year General David Morrison made the powerful observation that "the standard that you walk past is the standard you accept". His words emphasised that everyone has a role to play in ensuring integrity in leadership and culture; this is never more starkly true than when we choose who will govern our State.
On Saturday, the standard Tasmanians vote for will be the standard they are willing to accept. Recent polls suggest they are ready to set a higher standard for leadership and political representation..."

[A/Prof Joanna Vince @Joanna_Vince]

A reminder that if you are interested in this project please contact me asap. Total stipend per annum is AUS$58,000
https://t.co/4RyZ8YTJVg

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

@kevinbonham @TasmanianTimes The Local Government Act requires Ms Mead to have declared this conflict AND that the council's GM allow @abcnews to inspect the register of councillors' declared interests: LG Act sections 48 and 54 #lgtas #politas

[Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham]

Conflict of interest story re Braddon Liberal candidate Vonette Mead raised by @tasmaniantimes a month ago has now made the ABC https://t.co/BKMiVKmc83 #politas

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

Saul Eslake on Tas Treasury's dire forecasts for unemployment and the Budget's holes - which he says explain why election called so early, before next Budget needed to be delivered: https://t.co/YOuS4Wqbil #politas

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

Experts condemn Liberal Party's planned law change to make MPs dissenting from Party position forfeit seats to Party's next candidate: https://t.co/HH49A5fnC0 #auspol #politas @ABCaustralia @abcnews @kevinbonham

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

@MonteBovill But Liberals' fake website of @JacquiLambie name, photo, etc, a more flagrant breach of the Electoral Act, s 196 "Candidate names not to be used without authority", which she complained to TEC about, remains a week after ABC reported on it https://t.co/WOBpYtM1wT #politas #auspol

[Sabra Lane @SabraLane]

Critics say it's an 'extreme version"... and "sports rorts on steroids" - My colleague @alliehumphries reports on a Tas Govt Grants process: > https://t.co/XwPsWzJpAi

You can hear a version on AM too. @abchobart @abcnews

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

Dear @David_Speers @InsidersABC Disclosures please re the rep of highly politically-connected PR/lobbyist company who joined Mike on today’s cartoon couch. Why depart from journos usually there to an ex-journo from PR co? #insiders #auspol

[Tasmanian Inquirer @TasInquirer]

Thread) The federal government decision to fund the Marinus transmission link between #Tasmania and Vic toria will be in the news today

– so here are links to earlier #TasInq stories on this and related Tas #energy issues #auspol #politas
https://t.co/QVYYQ1ucvK

[Tasmanian Inquirer @TasInquirer]

It appears #Tasmania wasn’t supposed to find out about the million-dollar PR campaign that TasNetworks has been waging for the Marinus Link project. @BobBurtonoz analyses the implications of this covert campaign.

Latest from #TasInq at https://t.co/bZth87LxJo
#politas #auspol

[Tasmanian Inquirer @TasInquirer]

When a union leader criticised TasNetworks' Marinus project, he had no idea a team of spin-doctors would swing into action. @BobBurtonoz has inside running on what happened next in a million $ PR campaign.

Find out at https://t.co/VU2GHvAH5w
#politas #auspol #TasInq #Tasmania

[Tasmanian Inquirer @TasInquirer]

#Tasmania's govt-owned electricity transmission company has a $1 million public relations campaign to push the Marinus project. @BobBurtonoz uncovers a stealthy plan to plug into political lobbyists with influential connections.
Read at https://t.co/c7SDnoV2ee 👇
#TasInq #politas

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

Unemployment fell recently because 7000 people stopped looking for jobs (likely due to COVID), explains @RDNS_TAI - like the UK where #COVID19 has slashed its participation rate by 1/2 million people, says the Bank of England #AusVotes #AusPol2022 #Ausbiz

[Linda Mottram @[email protected]🌻 @LindaMottram]

Election Day! Of undecideds and independents: @KerryChika and @brucehawker2010 parse the campaign and urge bipartisanship on climate in the next Parliament. And @RDNS_TAI will COVID be a handbrake on the economy? https://t.co/9HGnZg33l9

[RN Breakfast @RNBreakfast]

The Australian Institute has done a deep dive of every single appointment made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal since 1996, and it's found that political appointments have sky-rocketed.

@BenOquist

https://t.co/pcviZdxSyI

[RN Breakfast @RNBreakfast]

31 former judges have thrown their weight behind calls for a federal anti-corruption commission.

In an open letter to parliament, the group says the erosion of public confidence in our shared democratic principles is at stake.

https://t.co/9mpCYKSxVG

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

“Scale of Australia’s aged care Covid deaths laid bare as staff prepare to strike”#auspol #ausvotes @RNBreakfast https://t.co/LjB7K3eZrI

[Dr Tom Baxter @tombaxter]

PM still sounded 'like a bit of a bulldozer' @abc730 #abc730 #ausvotes #auspol

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

Not sure what the point of interviewing Scott Morrison is if you just let him recite his talking points without stopping him.

[Karen Middleton @KarenMMiddleton]

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