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2011-01-25

Tasmania will be just fine

Comments on Tony McCall “Old enmities cloud Apple Isle's future”, 25/01/2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/old-enmities-cloud-apple-isles-future/story-e6frg6zo-1225993845801

The following statement is half correct at best"

"Tasmania faces significant employment losses in the forestry sector and in GST revenue at a juncture when the federal government, squeezed by flood reconstruction priorities, will be reluctant to hand out yet more funds to compensate forestry companies, employers and employees exiting the sector."

Tasmania's GST revenue will not decrease. How could it decrease?

Tasmania now has a very strong leverage on the Gillard minority federal government because of the Independent MP from Tasmania. So how will it not use that advantage is beyond belief and common sense, just as it did during Senator Harradine’s time.

There is little immediate and excessive budgetary pressure for Tasmania now. No point now to frighten the first time female and new premier.

As for the intermediate and longer terms, Tasmania needs to take advantages of its natural environment and natural resources, and relatively lower costs of living.

It needs to deepen value-adding to resource uses. it should increase the efficiency of transport within the island. It needs to lower travel costs between it and the mainland Australia to attract more and younger people, including international immigration, to Tasmania.

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