ROBYN MCNICOL: Spectacular Arm End, slated for a golf course development, is being overtaken by boxthorn weed while lease information is withheld
THE announcement by the State Government that it would not release the contents of leases over reserved land comes as no surprise to Re Imagine the End (RITE).
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust’s (TCT) interests in housing relates to: urban sprawl causing loss of bushland and farmland and increasing carbon emissions from transport; inappropriate infill or high rise housing threatening urban green spaces and residential amenity; and increased carbon emissions and broader ecological footprint from over-sized and energy inefficient houses.
The information sheet ‘Protecting People, Places and Property’, provided by DPIPWE as a part of this review, has a title that is misleading and disingenuous. It more properly should have been titled ‘Culling native wildlife to protect pasture and crops’. Given the relatively low level of actions taken to control wildlife through lethal means for protection of people and places, the brochure should have focused on the much bigger issue of culling for the protection of pasture and crops.
Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission in response to the ‘Review of Tasmania’s Local Government Legislative Framework Discussion Paper December 2018’ (Discussion Paper). In this submission, we refer to the entire review process as the Local Government Legislative Framework Review. The Local Government Act is referred to as the LGA.
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust (TCT) wishes to provide a late submission to the Legislative Council Select Committee – Firearms Law Reforms Inquiry. The TCT is very concerned regarding the subject of the committee’s inquiry but we were unable to provide a submission by the advertised deadline due to numerous urgent and important deadlines. We hope that our submission can be taken into account.
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust (TCT) wishes to provide an additional submission to the House of Assembly Select Committee on Firearms Legislation and Policy. The TCT made a submission to the previous Legislative Council Select Committee – Firearms Law Reforms Inquiry and I understand that the House of Assembly Select Committee has been provided with a copy of that submission.
The Draft Waste Action Plan is frustratingly incomplete and contradictory, containing a number of ground breaking commitments e.g. waste reduction and diversion targets, a container refund scheme and a statewide landfill levy while also missing many of the elements fundamental to an effective plan e.g. lacking over-all goals and objectives, failing to address roles and responsibilities, postponing decisions on governance structures, not making any specific commitments on infrastructure and omitting many policy and legislative reforms that industry and the community are demanding.
