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PMAT Media Release: The Tasmanian Government’s renewed push for DAPs is another demonstration they don’t care about the community

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The Tasmanian Government’s renewed push for DAPs is another demonstration they don’t care about the community or Local Government,” says Ms Underwood, “In 2024, we saw huge opposition against the DAPs Bill with 92% of submissions (444/482) against, every local Council opposed, and the Legislative Council voted it down. This Bill is not significantly different to last time.

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Greg Barns piece published in the Mercury – Some disturbing developments for democracy (3/3/2025).

The Mercury: Some Disturbing Developments for Democracy

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“Underpinning the DAP [Development Assessment Panel] proposal and the curtailment of appeal rights is the undermining of democracy. And there is also the fact that given Tasmania’s appalling propensity for conflicts of interest and weak political donation laws, the risk of undue influence, to put it mildly, cannot be ruled out.” Greg Barns piece published in the Mercury – Some disturbing developments for democracy (3/3/2025).

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#SCRAPTHEDAP. Scrap Development Assessment Panels (DAPs)

Media Release: Proposed planning laws are anti-democracy, anti-transparency and will be catastrophic for ordinary Tasmanians

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“The Government has brought back this highly contentious Bill, despite 92% of the almost 500 submissions received on the first version of the anti-democratic Bill in 2024 were opposed. The DAPs Bill was so flawed, every council in Tasmania voted against it and it was voted down in the Legislative Council on the last sitting day of Parliament last year,” said Sophie Underwood, State Director of the Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT).

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