Unsurprisingly, that Education Minister has been copping quite a lot of heat online over this. So, today:
The usual bullshit about “no, nothing to do with the scandal, I’m just stepping down to spend more time with my family”.
Once again, cyberbullying shitty politicians is a worthwhile thing to do. It doesn’t really change the system, but at least you can occasionally make one of the bastards suffer some consequences for their actions.
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Because of the tiny Tasmanian Parliament (only twenty five seats, about half of which are usually occupied by opposition parties), she was also Minister for Skills, Training and Workplace Growth; Disability Services; Children and Youth; Tourism, Hospitality and Events. The Tasmanian government has many more departments than it has ministers to run them.
The Tas Parliament used to be substantially larger (which greatly reduced this problem), but the major party duopoly collaborated to shrink it back in 1998 as part of a mostly-unsuccessful attempt to nobble the Greens.