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Donations undisclosed. Voters to be kept in dark on council candidate funding.

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Despite a pledge from the state Liberals to reform campaign finance laws, council candidates won’t have to disclose political donations ahead of this year’s local government elections. Tasmania remains the only jurisdiction in Australia without a mandated donation disclosure scheme for council elections, and new rules won’t be implemented until after October’s vote.

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Candidates Survey: What the 2026 Upper House candidates told PMAT about their voting intentions

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An election is being held on 02 May 2026 for House of Assembly seats in Huon and Rosevears. As part of our election work, PMAT surveyed candidates on key planning issues across Development Assessment Panels, changes to Elector Polls and proposed changes to weaken Tasmania’s State Coastal Policy.

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Mercury Opinion Piece "Squeezing out our character" published 24 October 2025

Mercury Opinion Piece: Squeezing Out Our Character

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“Development in our public wild places is now possible with Reserve Activity Assessments, an internal government process for assessing tourism porposals. Many permitted uses can be approved in our national parks and wilderness World Heritage areas and there is no guarantee of public notification or consultation over these processes. Hence there are no appeal rights and review of decisions across 50 per cent of Tasmania.”

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Joint Media Release: Tasmanian Government fails to act on protecting National Parks & Reserves from Major Developments

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Our organisations do support legislation to make the RAA process a statutory process to address a range of existing problems we have been raising for over eight years.What our organisations are calling for is a transparent statutory process for assessment of developments in National Parks and Reserves, that includes merit-based planning appeal rights.

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The Mercury: Sun, Sea and Scepticism

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“At a time where we should be thinking more about how and where we build, this will most likely increase the risk to buildings in the coastal zone. It will have implications around liability for local councillors, rate payers, and also implications for the insurance sector around insurability and potentially increase premiums.”- Sophie Underwood, State Director Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania

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