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Giving in to Federal Greens policies would wipe an astonishing $4 billion annually off Tasmania’s GSP and destroy 15,500 jobs, according to a simple review of ABS data, according to the Liberal Member for Bass Michael Ferguson. Source: Timberbiz “The Greens have made it clear that they want to shut down Tasmania’s job-rich mining, aquaculture and forestry industries,” Mr Ferguson said. He said that based on the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, approximately 15,500 Tasmanians were employed in these industries, collectively contributing $4 billion to the State’s economy each year. “The Liberal Party value these jobs and these people. Tasmania needs these vital industries,” Mr Ferguson said. “That’s a whopping 10.5 per cent of Tasmania’s GSP that would be at massive risk when Labor does a deal with the Greens to form Government. “To put it another way, Tasmanian households would be $17,000 worse off each and every year,” he said. “This is before the Greens kill off our defence industries, our advanced manufactures and other productive industries.” Mr Ferguson said that based on Labor’s failure to genuinely and quickly stand up for aquaculture jobs in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmanians were right to be fearful of a re-elected Labor government in Canberra, propped up and held hostage by the Greens. “Tasmanians have seen the Labor-Green nightmare before, from 2010 to 2014. Tasmania went into recession, and 10,000 Tasmanians were sent to the unemployment scrap heap,” he said. “The impacts are still being felt 10 years later, and Tasmanians will never forget. “That’s why we unashamedly say – Tasmania can’t afford to risk another Labor-Green Government.”