Today the Greens are backing UTAS academics calls to urgently establish a climate change adaptation fund for Tourism in Tasmania.
Tourism is essential to Tasmanian industry and the economy, and particularly in the north west there is so much untapped potential we can build on.
Do you agree that there's a risk of overuse of the place sort of being loved to death if we're not careful about visitor numbers? I think about, you know, do you remember that story from a few years ago - in fact, I just checked; it's on the blogs - the rats at Lake Rhona in the Denison Ranges. Do you agree that we need to very carefully manage our tourism sector to make sure we're not damaging those very things that Tasmania - people come to Tasmania for?
Premier, can I just ask a quick question about the Bruny Island four‑wheel drives, and then I'll let you go on this one for a while.
Premier, your government cannot properly fund the Integrity Commission. It has not funded the national preventative mechanism to the extent that it is even able to perform its statutory functions. Yet in this budget you can find $4 million for Cadbury's and a chocolate fountain. What do you think that says about your priorities? If you cannot fund your integrity bodies properly but you can give Cadbury's $4 million? Then there is the rest, of course, because potentially there is another $8 million ahead. So, $12 million to a private multinational corporation for a chocolate function nobody asked for and Tasmania cannot afford.
On 31 July, the Wellington Park Trust announced that an application for Wellington Park to become a dark sky park was accepted by the International Dark Sky Association.
Honourable Speaker, winter traditionally marks the off season for tourism in Tasmania. This year many small businesses and operators are heading for a slower than normal season after a swathe of events were cancelled.
I rise tonight to congratulate two friends of the Meander Valley community for taking the stage at last week's Great Western Tiers Tourism Association Award.
Tasmania is facing a myriad of crises. Our health system is failing, housing is increasingly unattainable, the cost of living is pushing people to breaking point and our environment is precariously close to ecological collapse.
Clean and green, that is who we were for decades. We were the magnificent wild state, where people could come for fresh produce.
