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How we worked with others to force the release of the 2024 Report

How we worked with others to force the release of the 2024 Report:

The Australia Institute and Environmental Defenders Office were instrumental in kick-starting the reporting process for Tasmania’s State of the Environment Report 2024 (the report), in 2022, by ‘reminding’ the state government of its legal obligation. The government’s deadline for reporting was June 30th, 2024. 

In May 2024, Environment Tasmania ran two conferences with over 30 Tasmanian environmental groups in attendance. Groups workshopped the upcoming report, started strategising and commenced work on a joint statement.

In June 2024, after the deadline for the report had been missed, Environment Tasmania coordinated a joint statement (signed by 31 environment groups) calling on the state government to release the report without delay, for its findings to be factored into the government’s decision-making and the Tasmanian Budget 24-25.

In August 2024, on the day the report was handed to the Planning Minister, Environment Tasmania released an open letter (signed by 28 environment groups) to the state government welcoming the report and calling for it to be released to the public without further delay.

Over the winter period, Environment Tasmania repeatedly raised concerns with the Tasmanian Labor Party and Tasmanian Green Party over the handling of the report and the need for it to be published without delay. 

On September 11th, the Tasmanian Green Party put forward a motion, quoting the open letter Environment Tasmania coordinated the month before, requesting for the report to be released. Atypically, the Tasmanian Labor Party supported this motion, forcing the Tasmanian Liberal Party to release the report.

For the first time in 15 years, Tasmania has a State of the Environment Report. Environment Tasmania will use this report to hold the government to account and utilise its campaigns to reverse the state’s environmental declines.