It has been exactly one year since the publication of Tasmania’s State of the Environment Report 2024 (the 2024 report). The 2024 report, written by independent experts, found that large swathes of the state’s environment were in decline and provided the government with a list of recommendations to address these declines. The government’s progress in delivering these recommendations remains a mystery with no update provided in 2025. 

A healthy environment underpins Tasmania’s brand, a brand that supports tens of thousands of jobs across the state. Without urgent government intervention, the condition of Tasmania’s natural environment will degrade - placing a growing number of these jobs at risk. The longer the government takes to address these declines, the more expensive and complicated it will become to restore the state’s key natural assets. 

“Tasmania’s government has a key opportunity this November, with the ‘interim’ budget, to take back control and halt the state’s environmental declines by investing in new jobs and funding upgrades to its environmental management and monitoring systems,” said James Overington, CEO, Environment Tasmania. 

Overington continued, “To be successful, the government must address its paralysis, set out a comprehensive strategy and invest in the restoration of the environment. Tasmanians will not tolerate another 10 years of declines and it would be a grim legacy for the Liberals to leave in their wake.”