Re: Tasmania’s State of Environment Report

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Re: Tasmania’s State of Environment Report

24 Mar 2023

Ramsay@planning.tas.gov.au Dear Treasurer, Re: Tasmania’s State of Environment Report The Australia Institute Tasmania and the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) write to seek the allocation of at least $1.5 million in the 2023-24 state budget to the Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC) for the production of the State of the Environment (SoE) Report. [...] In 2022, documents released to The Australia Institute Tasmania and EDO under Right to Information (RTI) showed that, since at least 2016, the Tasmanian Government has been aware that the TPC has not had the financial capacity to undertake SoE reporting. [...] The RTI documents revealed subsequent advice from the Department of Justice to the Minister for Planning that “The TPC cannot produce the SoE Report because it cannot finance production of the Report.” In 2019, the Department of Justice advised the Minister for Planning that: The total cost of producing the 2009 SoE Report was in excess of $I million over five years. [...] Recommendations for future action to be taken in relation to the management of the environment. [...] We understand that, to date, the TPC has been given $500,000 to cover the cost of four staff, along with an audit of the Report.

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