THE OPPOSITION and Greens have slammed the state government's performance during its first 200 days in office, accusing it of bullying, backflips and broken promises.
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But Tasmanian political analyst Kevin Bonham says the Hodgman government does not have much cause for concern, arguing its first six months in power has been mostly successful.
Labor leader Bryan Green yesterday presented a glossy brochure detailing what he described as "200 days of incompetence", mocking a similar document heralding the government's achievements after its first 100 days.
Mr Green said Tasmanians were beginning to lose faith and trust in the government.
"They made great fanfare of their first 100 days and have failed from that point on," he said.
Mr Green said delaying a return to budget surplus and threatening to sack front-line workers were both major commitments thrown out the window, arguing the government had also fallen short on a litany of other pledges.
"Tasmanians took the Liberals on trust and that has rapidly been eroded," he said.
Greens leader Kim Booth argued tearing up the forest peace deal, pushing to legislate harsher protest laws and refusing to rule out compulsorily acquiring the Triabunna woodchip mill have trashed the state's reputation and trampled its democracy.
"This is a very, very bad 200 days and I think a lot of Tasmanians are beginning to question why they voted for a majority Liberal Hodgman government in the first place," he said.
Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin hit back at her opponent's appraisals.
"We've managed to achieve what Labor couldn't achieve in 16 years," Dr Goodwin said.
"We've created 3400 new jobs, we're delivering on our commitments, we've managed to reduce the unemployment rate and increase the participation rate . . . we're committed to getting on with the job of fixing the budget and getting on with our commitments."
Dr Bonham said despite a number of challenges during its first 200 days, Tasmanian voters were likely to "cut the government some slack".
"First time governments usually get away with a lot of variation from what they've said they would do, provided its seen as being its in the spirit of their original intentions," Dr Bonham said.
"From the perspective of what the government is doing as opposed to what they set out to, the government and its support base would mostly see it as going pretty well so far."
