Yesterday's Tasmanian Audit Office report evaluated 22 Parks reserve activity assessments and found that of these, only two had complete documentation.
The Auditor-General’s Report into the Expressions of Interest process for Tourism Investment Opportunities is a damning assessment of the EOI and RAA process.
The Auditor-General's report found that the reserve activity assessment process is insufficient for complex proposals.
The heli-tourism proposal for Halls Island at Lake Malbena will now be assessed under the EPBC Act as a controlled action.
The development at Halls Island in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park is a travesty of proper process.
DPIPWE Secretary, Tim Baker, has been reduced to begging disaffected staff to show loyalty to Parks Manager, Jason Jacobi.
Tasmanians have a right to know what their government is doing on their behalf – especially when it comes to public lands.
The approval of plans to privatise the Rosny Hill Recreation Area is a slap in the face to the local community.
The Hodgman Government are spending $40 000 of public funds on this study to try to take the heat out of their privatisation of public protected areas.
The Greens questioned Parks Minister Gutwein about another secretive EOI project in a protected area and the apparent expenditure of public monies to enable it.