The Southern Integrated Transport Plan has been developed as a consultative document, which has been endorsed by the Steering Committee overseeing the development of the Plan.
We encourage you to have your say on the draft Plan, particularly on the vision, objectives and strategies contained within the Plan. Your comments will be considered by the Steering Committee in the development of the final Plan.
A response form has been developed to assist your organisation in providing comment, organisations and individuals are also welcome to prepare their own separate comments.
The Plan has an eight-week public comment period with comments due by 31 August 2009. Please direct comments to the:
Southern Integrated Transport Plan
Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources
PO Box 936
Hobart 7001
or click here to email the steering committee.
Your comments are important to us and we look forward to your input to enable us to deliver a transport system that meets our regions future needs and aspirations.
Download the Draft Plan for public consultation [PDF 1.6Mb]
Download the Response form [PDF - 244Kb]
The Southern Tasmanian Youth Transitions Taskforce, Management Committee, meeting dates for 2009 will be the second Tuesday in the month.
The meetings will be in the Board Room, Level 3, 85 Macquarie Street, at 9.30am:
February 10, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8.
The Southern Tasmanian Youth Transitions Task Force has urged the Federal Government to undertake an urgent overhaul of the Youth Allowance so that it better supports young Australians undertaking post-school study.
The Task Force, established under the State Government’s Guaranteeing Futures initiative, and auspiced by the Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority, claims that the current structure of the Youth Allowance often acts as a disincentive for young people in their efforts to remain in further education.
The Task Force, which comprises young people, and representatives of the community, local government, business and the youth sector, works to enhance transition options and opportunities for young people moving from compulsory education, to further education, training and work.
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The second round of Innovative Grants were advertised earlier this year for programs to maximize the outcomes for Year 10 students who will have three additional weeks at school this year, and received a terrific level of response.
While it was not possible to fund all of those that applied we are delighted with the projects that we are able to support.
We are also delighted that ‘Guaranteeing Futures’ in the Department of Education are likely to be following up on several programs.
Below is a list of programs that the Southern Tasmanian Youth Transitions Taskforce is funding.
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The Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority has recently appointed Sandy Leighton as the new Project Manager Southern Tasmanian Weed Strategy, replacing Jonah Gouldthorpe.
Sandy has a passion for engaging anyone and everyone in weed management, from raising awareness and skills, to identifying gaps and exploring possibilities for partnerships, knowledge and infrastructure sharing all with the ultimate aim of achieving on-ground results.
Starting out in life as an entomologist Sandy crossed over to weeds about 13 years ago whilst working as a consultant on the Meander Valley ragwort biocontrol program.
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Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) is identified as a high priority weed for the southern region.
It is a familiar pasture and roadside weed throughout the higher rainfall parts of the region and has been the subject of a high profile awareness and control campaign in the Huon Valley and Kingborough Council areas recently.
Ragwort is an economically significant competitor of pastures and is poisonous to livestock when eaten.
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By ROB VALENTINE | Water and sewerage services to the Tasmanian community are a core function of local government and a responsibility councils take very seriously.
As chairman of the Southern Tasmanian Councils Authority (STCA), which represents the 12 councils in the South of the state, I welcome Treasurer Michael Aird’s comments in the Mercury of January 1 regarding the State Government’s review of the water and sewerage sector.
In particular, the assurances — that the review is not aimed at forced council amalgamations or privatisation of water or sewerage services, and that career and training opportunities in the sector will improve — are noted and welcomed.
Since announcement of the review in the Premier’s September 2006 State of the State address, a great deal of work has been going on behind the scenes, both by the State Government’s Ministerial Taskforce and Project Team and by local councils, individually and collectively.
However, until now there has been little information provided to inform the community of the review’s potentially huge implications.
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