The Australia Institute Tasmania

03/12/2025

Tasmania decides: will the Upper House rescue the government?

Sometimes, the best thing that can happen to a government is to lose a vote in Parliament. Doing so allows a government say, hand-on-heart, that it did everything that it could to fulfill its promises, while sparing that government from the disastrous consequences of its promises.

28/11/2025

This Sunday will be another fantastic community get together in celebration of Tassie's precious coasts. Food, music, friends - what more could you ask for?

Invite your friends to get behind this event and support the diligent care of our bays and coastlines, and our wild fisheries.

This Sunday 30th November, 2pm to 5.30pm.
Tickets $25 donation, children under 12 free.

Kim Imber will now be playing as well as Soundbites - Tasmanian Band !!!
https://musictasmania.org/connect/artists/kim-imber
https://www.facebook.com/SoundBitesTasmania/

Prebuy tickets or get them at the door.
https://events.humanitix.com/together-for-the-bays-yv7x8z6c

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18/11/2025

This is happening in National Heritage recognised waters of the Kimberley (supposedly a marine protected area) and Tassal/Cooke want to expand their operations? This is the same corporation, causing the same pollution problems, now also experiencing mass fish deaths, as in the foreign-owned salmon industry in Tasmania.

16/11/2025

Standing room only at the community meeting calling on the Tasmanian Government to take salmon farms out of Long Bay on the Tasman Peninsula. This would be consistent with Recommendation 3 of the 2022 Parliamentary Inquiry, but the government refuses to implement this recommendation.

04/11/2025

Here's some food for thought, especially for ALP backbenchers...

The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.

08/10/2025

Bill Browne, Director of the Australia Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program on FOI reforms:
“Contrary to the government’s claims about ‘FOI generators’ and ‘thousands of requests’, public servants 20 years ago dealt with many more FOI requests than under the Albanese government."

The Government justified a clamp down on freedom of information requests by claiming an increase in malicious and automated FOI attempts. Only problem is, there's no evidence of such a thing.

Our research showed that the number of FOI requests has not increased, but processing time has.

Read:
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/proposed-changes-to-freedom-of-information-scheme-dont-add-up/

08/09/2025

Did you know salmon farms kill dolphins?

Four dolphins died entangled in equipment at Huon Aquaculture salmon farms in the first half of 2025, newly released Tasmanian government data reveals.

03/09/2025

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

15/08/2025

Tasmania has "all the ingredients" for the same disaster to unfold here, according to IMAS scientist Dr Scott Bennett. Worth tuning in to this...

First session! Citizens' Inquiry into South Australia's Coastal Crisis - 29 August @ 12noon Adelaide time (ACST) - https://mailchi.mp/earthlaws/ci-29aug

11/08/2025

BBF's federal court case starts next Thursday...

Join us for a legal briefing on our Federal Court battle to save the endangered Maugean Skate from toxic salmon farming.

11/08/2025

Is Labor’s new integrity policy more hype than substance? Great analysis here from the Tasmanian Inquirer…

Tasmanian Labor’s recently released integrity policy abandons significant commitments it made ahead of the 2024 election.

10/08/2025

Tasmania’s Integrity Commission is so poorly funded it begs the question whether it’s deliberate in order to avoid scrutiny.
New Australia Institute analysis finds 5 major reforms are urgently needed, which former Victorian IBAC Commissioner describes as critical.