The Mercury: Data hubs wave of change
Government wants DAPs to help scrutinise huge influx of data centres proposals
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Opinion Piece: Planning System Needs a Reboot on Data Centres
Mercury Opinion Piece Published 07 October. “The Government cannot sweeps developments under the carpet.”
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PMAT Media Release: PMAT Convinces Planning Minister to remove power over rezoning land – But will the Minister clarify how he will use his new powers of applying planning Codes
PMAT briefed the Legislative Council on the [Land Use Planning and Approvals (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2026 on 2 September 2026 and strongly advocated that no new re-zoning powers be given to the Minister for Planning, arguing the Bill would place too much power in one pair of hands.
PMAT Media Release: Potential extraordinary new Ministerial powers to rezone land across Tasmania
The Land Use Planning and Approvals (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2026 could give unprecedented new powers to the Minister for Planning. The Bill allows for the concentration of power in creating a system where the Minister initiates the draft amendment to a planning scheme, with statewide application, and then holds the ultimate veto or approval power.
Donations undisclosed. Voters to be kept in dark on council candidate funding.
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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How would we know cutting councillors is a good idea? The public has never been consulted
The public has never been consulted on the draft legislation that will remove 50 councillors from Tasmanian councils.
PMAT & TCT Joint Media Release: Countdown to weakening of Tasmania’s democracy – TODAY
The legislation to remove 50 local government councillors has not been released for the community, the voters, to comment on. The government has misled the Legislative Council by claiming that this has occurred.
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Candidates Survey: What the 2026 Upper House candidates told PMAT about their voting intentions
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.
Thank you + PMAT Wrap up 2025
As we wrap up 2025, we want to say a heartfelt thank you 💛 This year has been huge, and none of our wins would have been possible without your support, your voice, and your commitment to protecting our communities and the places we love.
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Mercury Opinion Piece: Squeezing Out Our Character
“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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