Bryan Green

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The Honourable
Bryan Green
50th Leader of the Opposition of Tasmania
In office
31 March 2014 –17 March 2017

Green entered the Tasmanian parliament at the 1998 election. He was appointed to the ministerial portfolio of Primary Industries, Water and Environment in 2002. Following a reshuffle precipitated by the resignation of Premier Jim Bacon due to ill-health, Green was promoted to Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources in 2004.

As Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Green was responsible for obtaining Parliamentary support for construction of the Meander Dam, a major water project that was opposed by conservationists. As Transport Minister he proposed lowering the states speed limits on rural roads from 100 km/h to 90 km/h, a proposition that was met with somewhat of a backlash. Green was later appointed as the chairman of the Tasmanian Road Safety Council. [2] He was the key negotiator with freight rail company Pacific National, which in September 2005 threatened to 'pull out' of intermodal operations in the State, forcing all containerised and coal rail freight onto the road. He agreed to a $120 million rescue package ($80 million funded by the Australian federal government) to the company.

On 14 July 2006 Green resigned from all leadership and frontbench positions following an enquiry by Auditor-General Mike Blake into a deal Green signed with Tasmanian Compliance Corporation (TCC). [3] The deal promised the TCC company, part-owned by two former Labor ministers (John White and Glen Milliner), a three-year exclusive business monopoly from the Government or $2.5 million compensation. Green faced trial in December 2007 on charges of conspiracy and attempting to interfere with an executive officer, which ended in a hung jury. A 2008 retrial also ended in a hung jury, with the DPP subsequently dropping the charges. [4] [5] Green was reelected in 2010 and 2014. [6]

In 2011 Lara Giddings succeeded David Bartlett as Premier, and Green became Deputy Premier. [7] In March 2014, following the resignation of Giddings, Green was elected Labor leader in Tasmania after gaining unanimous support from colleagues. [8]

Green's political achievements included restructuring Tasmania's four port companies into a single entity, supporting a wide-ranging review into public passenger transport services, and increasing transparency in the forestry sector, through changes to Freedom of Information laws and by supporting the role of the Forest Practices Authority.

On the morning of 17 March 2017, Green told a party meeting that he was retiring from politics. Shadow health minister Rebecca White was elected unopposed to replace him, and Green's seat in Braddon was filled by a recount. [9] He was the first Tasmanian Labor leader in decades not to take the party into an election.

In December 2023, Labor Leader Rebecca White announced Green as Labor's candidate for the Legislative Council seat of Prosser in the 2024 periodic elections. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bryan Alexander Green". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania . Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "Tas deputy premier on drink-driving charge". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 June 2011.
  3. ↑ News report on TCC scandal [ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ Green to face retrial, ABC News, 13 December 2007
  5. ↑ Former deputy premier goes from court to Parliament, ABC Local Radio, 13 March 2008
  6. ↑ "House of Assembly Elections". www.tec.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ↑ Brown, Damien (24 January 2011). "Giddings is new Tas Premier". The Mercury . Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  8. ↑ "Bryan Green takes on Tasmanian Labor leadership after Lara Giddings resigns". ABC News. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Green out, White in for Tasmanian Labor". ABC News. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Former Labor leader Bryan Green will run for the Upper House seat of Prosser". The Mercury. 8 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
Political offices
Preceded by Deputy Premier of Tasmania
2006		Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Premier of Tasmania
2011–2014		Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania)
2014–2017		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Leader of the Labor Party in Tasmania
2014–2017		Succeeded by
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