Second submission to draft HFE report by Peter Brohier 17th November 2017 Western Australians are paying more while Canberra and Hobart keeps Tasmania poor. My committees acted as the catalysts for the integration of Tasmania into the national economy by making Bass Strait ferries a part of the national highway. We met the purpose of federation- by finally linking all the colonies though the movement of people, by the introduction of the BSPVES - having a net present value in the billions. Whilst the Coalition announced it was going to ‘expand’ the equalisation scheme, Canberra then, five years from the schemes inception, later, scrapped Tasmania’s chance of full integration by failing to continue to equalize. Tasmania has done nothing to rectify this. Its people under federation are entitled to the benefits of an integrated economy, not a separate one., Canberra has torn up a very valuable interstate, inter-capital highway and redirected its funding to massive subsidies, favoring leisure holidays to Tasmania and the core accommodation sector, driving directly about 7% not 70% of the Tasmanian economy. The scheme is now indexed by CPI, not the former ‘cost of road travel’. $50 foot passenger fare proposed PM Howard, at a time when a car was transported a no cost, were rejected. The intent of federation is not being respected. This move, against the Interests of Tasmania, was either not thought out or intentional. Now it is endorsed by the Federal Minister for Transport.
Second submission to draft HFE report by Peter Brohier 17th November 2017 Western Australians are paying more while Canberra and Hobart keeps Tasmania poor. My committees acted as the catalysts for the integration of Tasmania into the national economy by making Bass Strait ferries a part of the national highway. We met the purpose of federation- by finally linking all the colonies though the movement of people, by the introduction of the BSPVES - having a net present value in the billions. Whilst the Coalition announced it was going to ‘expand’ the equalisation scheme, Canberra then, five years from the schemes inception, later, scrapped Tasmania’s chance of full integration by failing to continue to equalize. Tasmania has done nothing to rectify this. Its people under federation are entitled to the benefits of an integrated economy, not a separate one., Canberra has torn up a very valuable interstate, inter-capital highway and redirected its funding to massive subsidies, favoring leisure holidays to Tasmania and the core accommodation sector, driving directly about 7% not 70% of the Tasmanian economy. The scheme is now indexed by CPI, not the former ‘cost of road travel’. $50 foot passenger fare proposed PM Howard, at a time when a car was transported a no cost, were rejected. The intent of federation is not being respected. This move, against the Interests of Tasmania, was either not thought out or intentional. Now it is endorsed by the Federal Minister for Transport.
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