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Graphic: "The All You Can Eat Porky" piece by Danielle Wood in The Mercury.

Opinion Piece: “The All You Can Eat Porky” by Danielle Wood

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Deputy Premier and Minister for Planning Michael Ferguson for a quiet little policy to water down Tasmania’s planning laws so that ‘certain development applications’ would not be considered by local councils, or potentially subject to public appeals, but determined by Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) instead. The minister hasn’t talked about this much lately, despite a 400-strong public meeting held last week by a very concerned Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania.

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A State election is being held on 23 March 2024 for all House of Assembly seats. Of the 167 candidates announced by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, PMAT managed to obtain email contact details for 160. The remainder did not have email details provided. Only 25 candidates completed the survey. The survey was open from Sunday 3 March 2024 until midnight Saturday 9 March 2024.

State Election Candidate Survey Results on DAPs 2024

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A State election is being held on 23 March 2024 for all House of Assembly seats. Of the 167 candidates announced by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, PMAT managed to obtain email contact details for 160. The remainder did not have email details provided. Only 25 candidates completed the survey. The survey was open from Sunday 3 March 2024 until midnight Saturday 9 March 2024.

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Media Release: Tasmanian Conservation Organisations Urge Candidates to Oppose Government’s Proposed Developer-Friendly Assessment Process for National Parks and Reserves 

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Tasmanian nature conservation organisations with decades of experience working to create and protect world heritage areas, national parks and other reserves have united to urge election candidates to ‘Scrap the DAPs’ for reserved land.

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Herald Journal Opinion Piece: ‘JDAP Ignores 220 Submissions’

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“More than 200 submissions called on the JDAP to reject the proposal by WA Police to build a four-storey district police centre in the buffer of the world heritage listed Fremantle Prison, which will involve destroying a section of convict-built wall built in the 1850s.”

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Waverley deputy mayor Elaine Keenan, pictured with Brent Jackson, said residents were locked out of planning decisions which were made by “unelected faceless men and women”. CREDIT:DOMINIC LORRIMER

Sydney Morning Herald Opinion Piece: How ‘unelected faceless men and women’ keep approving NSW developments’

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“Local planning panels were created to stamp out corruption, but councillors from across the political spectrum say they favour developers and undermine democratic accountability.
Liberal mayors have joined Labor and Greens councillors in criticising the NSW planning system.”

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The Mercury on the 29 November 2023 entitled ‘New planning proposal removes independent review of decisions and risks, undermining confidence’, by Anja Hilkemeijer and Cleo Hansen-Lohrey lecturers in law at the University of Tasmania who teach constitutional law and administrative law respectively.

Opinion Piece: New Planning Proposal Removes Independent Review of Decisions and Risks, Undermining Confidence

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PMAT concurs with the opinion piece, published in The Mercury on the 29 November 2023 entitled ‘New planning proposal removes independent review of decisions and risks, undermining confidence’, by Anja Hilkemeijer and Cleo Hansen-Lohrey lecturers in law at the University of Tasmania who teach constitutional law and administrative law respectively.

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Opinion Piece: Where is the Evidence that Councils are Blocking Developments and a New Process is Required?

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What is the real reason why the Minister for Planning Michael Ferguson, wants to create DAPs (Development Assessment Panels) to allow property developers to bypass local councils and communities and remove appeal rights?

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PMAT Submission: PESRAC Dec 2020

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Media Enquiries Sophie UnderwoodPMAT State Director sophie_underwood@hotmail.com0407 501 999 Please share: Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT) thanks the Premier’s Economic & Social Recovery Advisory Committee (PESRAC) for this opportunity to submit some thoughts on Tasmania’s recovery post- Covid 19. We appreciate the massive task ahead and commend the Premier on making strong decisions to keep Tasmanians

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