Nearly 300 teachers.

Describing timetables as chaotic.

Seeing post year ten students vote with their feet.

"We're having half the, half the classes missing. I'm seeing teachers at their wits end," one man said. 

"It's just a horrific thing that's happened," one lady said.

Prepared to fight through the election and beyond.

"It's not education. A training package is not an education," Claremont College teacher Sue Hawkins said.

The Union says teachers have braved threats of lost pay, and even the loss of their jobs.

"They've done everything to try to deter people form coming to these meetings and today's meeting and as everyone can see they've failed," AEU Secondary Colleges president Greg Brown said.

The Premier holding his ground.

"I will not throw on the scrap heap another generation of Tasmanians who are not getting the qualifications they need to get the jobs they want," Premier David Bartlett said.

"It's the inevitable conclusion when you foist a reform package which puts teachers, students and parents in a state of crisis," Opposition leader Will Hodgman said. 

"Teachers have absolutely got a right to strike and they have a right to be paid while they take any industrial action," Greens leader Nick McKim said

Another electoral stinker.

Water and Sewerage.

Six months after taking over the corporation releasing a warts and all report.

Including 14 workplace injuries and 212 sewage treatment plant spills.

"I'm not saying this is better or worse than before. It's that we're counting it. We care about it. We're working very consistently with the data to see how we can improve it," Water and Sewerage Corporation chariman Geoff Willis.

The corporation plans to spend a billion dollars in the next ten years and roll out water metres across the state.