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December 18th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda SENIOR Labor Minister David O’Byrne has pledged to let Premier Lara Giddings lead Labor to the next state election.
Ms Giddings was lying low yesterday and refused to discuss reports that a plan to announce a softening of health budget cuts was scuttled at the last minute on Friday.
“I will not be challenging Lara Giddings for the leadership of the Labor Party. She has my full support to lead us to the next election,” Mr O’Byrne told the Sunday Tasmanian.
“I’m a team player. As a government, we’re working hard together, in difficult circumstances, to do the best thing for the Tasmanian community.”
Liberal MP Matthew Groom said the flagged health policy shift was a sign Ms Giddings held concerns for her position as Premier.
“Serious cracks are emerging on their strategy on health,” he said.
“We saw the first hint yesterday that with her job on the line the Premier’s been hatching up a secret plan to change tack on health.
“This just goes to show that the Government is making up policy on the run, they’re all over the place.”
He also described reports that Greens leader Nick McKim would renegotiate his power-sharing deal with Labor and make a bid for Deputy Premier following a leadership change as “a gun to the head” of the Government.
“What Nick McKim clearly sees is a government on its knees and he’s seeking to exploit that in a desperate grab for further power,” Mr Groom said.
Mr McKim said he made no apologies for trying to maximise “Green policy outcomes” on behalf of the party’s voters but would not hypothesise what would happen if Labor had a leadership change.
“Our position remains that we would rather Tasmania had a Green Premier, but this is the Parliament that the people of Tasmania voted for and that’s why we remain committed to providing for stable government,” he said.
“The protocol under which the Greens accept ministries is through an agreement with the Premier of the day, so naturally any change in Premier would require that to be revisited.
“This is exactly what happened when Lara Giddings took over from David Bartlett.”
Mr Groom said the leadership speculation had taken the Government’s eyes off the ball.
“All the talk this week has been about shoring up the position of the Premier, it’s internally focused internal squabbling for the fruits of power rather than a government focusing on the big issues like jobs, the economy, cost of living,” Mr Groom said.
A spokesman for the Premier said reports that she would postpone her holidays were wrong.
They would start as scheduled on Friday. She is expected to return to work in mid-January.
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