Campaigns

Keep It Ours

We need investment in our public services so they can strengthen our Tasmanian communities.

Our services have been eroded by a decade long obsession with austerity and privatisation – the divisive ideological belief that a shrinking public sector is a good thing, that budgets must be cut, working conditions dismantled and that putting profit before people somehow makes things better.

Time and time again we’ve heard claims that efficiencies gained by cutting and selling off public assets will free up resources to be invested where they’re most needed. In reality, Tasmanians get nothing.

Services Like:

Hospitals

Which care for the sick and get them back on their feet.

Parks & Wildlife

Which protects our world-renowned natural and cultural heritage.

Legal Aid, Prisons & Community Corrections

Working at their limits to keep communities safe and break the cycle of re-offending.

housing tasmania

Who strive every day to help Tasmanians experiencing homelessness to have a roof over their heads.

tastafe

Who grow the skills Tasmania needs so we can build back better from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

our child safety & referral line

Caring for Tassie’s most vulnerable kids from the epidemic of family violence.

Privatisation of Tasmania’s Public Sector under the Rockliff Liberal Government.

Cuts have undermined the services that generations of Tasmanians have built.

The public interest, not profit, should come first in any decision about the future of public services in Tasmania. Public services belong to all of us.

We need to keep them ours.

Tasmanians have a right to know whether the politicians who represent us will safeguard our public services before we vote on who will form the next government.

We’re calling on all political parties to commit to an end to all privatisation, outsourcing, and erosion of public assets for private profit.

We need a watchdog 
to call out privatisation in Tasmania.

Dob in privatisation and privatisation-by-stealth in your agency (“outsourcing,” “public-private partnerships”, and other weasel words), or share your experience of how privatisation has hurt Tasmania.

“I have worked for an IT firm that provided services to government agencies across various states and the national government. They were quite aware, and open with the fact that they needed to charge about the same for people and other resources as government would if doing the work internally, and then add another 20% to make a business profit. This is not value for money for the community.”
Anonymous union member
"Because the government ‘carer pool’ has diminished in the wake of NGO growth there is now a limited number of Departmental foster carers, and finding foster care placements for children has become more difficult. How is that ok?”
CPSU Member