Media Releases
MEDIA RELEASE: Tasmanian community overwhelmingly rejects proposed retrospective changes to State Coastal Policy
August 23, 2024
Tasmanian community overwhelmingly rejects proposed retrospective changes to State Coastal Policy With just over 400 submissions made in the briefest of public comment periods, 97% of submissions received by the Tasmanian Government were opposed to the proposed retrospective changes to the State Coastal Policy....
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Right to Information refused: Government involvement in the drafting of the State of the Environment Report 2024 remains unclear
August 14, 2024
In June 2024, Environment Tasmania asked The Tasmanian Planning Commission to release correspondence between the State Government and The Commission where it concerned the State of the Environment Report 2024. The Commission is obligated to provide this information under the Right to Information Act...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: CAPTIVE BABY MAUGEAN SKATE NEEDS A HEALTHY HARBOUR FREE FROM SALMON
August 13, 2024
“Environment Tasmania welcomes the encouraging news and remarkable achievement that IMAS scientists have successfully hatched baby Maugean skates from an egg laid in captivity. However, we stress that the captive breeding program cannot work in isolation. The fact remains that these captive skates will need a healthy Macquarie...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Proposed changes to Tasmania’s Coastal Policy touches community nerve
August 01, 2024
Media Release, 1 August 2024 ET/PMAT/TCT/ACS Proposed changes to Tasmania’s Coastal Policy touches community nerve A coalition of community groups concerned for Tasmania’s coasts have welcomed the hundreds of public submissions made in response to the Tasmanian Government’s proposed legislation to retrospectively change the...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: DUNALLEY COMMUNITY SHOWS UP TO COASTAL POLICY PUBLIC MEETING WITH CONCERN THIS COULD OPEN UP COAST TO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
July 31, 2024
23rd of July, 2024 MEDIA RELEASE: DUNALLEY COMMUNITY SHOWS UP TO COASTAL POLICY PUBLIC MEETING WITH CONCERN THIS COULD OPEN UP COAST TO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT Residents gathered at Dunalley Community Hall last night in a show of support for their coasts and to discuss proposed changes...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: 70 MEMBERS OF NORTH WEST TAS COMMUNITY COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF COASTS AND ROBBINS ISLAND IN FACE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO STATE COASTAL POLICY
July 31, 2024
13th of July MEDIA RELEASE: FULL HOUSE AS OVER 70 MEMBERS OF NORTH WEST TAS COMMUNITY COME OUT IN THE COLD RAIN IN SUPPORT OF COASTS AND ROBBINS ISLAND IN FACE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO STATE COASTAL POLICY Over 70 residents and community groups from North West of...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: State Government must scrap its proposed legislation to weaken the Tasmanian Coastal Policy
July 19, 2024
Joint Media Release: State Government must scrap its proposed legislation to weaken the Tasmanian Coastal Policy 18 July 2024 The Draft Validation (State Coastal Policy) Act 2024, released earlier this week by the State Government, raises more questions than it answers and demonstrates the government’s...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Publish the State of the Environment Report 2024
July 06, 2024
MEDIA RELEASE: Over 30 groups from across Tasmania call for greater accountability in Government environmental decision-making. A joint statement, signed by 31 groups, has called on the Tasmanian Government to publish the State of the Environment Report 2024 as soon as it is finalised....
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Oxygen levels at Macquarie Harbour not as rosy as government claims
July 05, 2024
Today’s announcement from the Tasmanian government does not provide the complete picture of the oxygen levels within Macquarie Harbour. "On closer examination of the EPA report, monitoring shows the dissolved oxygen levels within the Central Harbour and south-east section of the harbour located within...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Maugean Skate National Recovery Team Communique too little too late
June 11, 2024
MEDIA RELEASE: Maugean Skate National Recovery Team Communique too little too late Today, public communique for the Maugean Skate National Recovery Team’s February meeting has been released with scant and stale information. Read the communique here. Notably, Salmon Tasmania did not attend the meeting...
Read More