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Tasmanian State Election 2010

Election Overview

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Election Details

• March 20th

Policy Comparison

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Voting Recommendations

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General Election Analysis

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Policy and Parties - General Comments

The Greens

The State based policy, not surprisingly is the strongest of the three elected parties, in the State of Tasmania.

• The energy policy is seeking to be 100% renewable by 2050, which is relatively weak target given that most of their power already comes from hydro.
• While rejecting nuclear and forest biomass energy, the Tasmanian Greens are embracing natural gas for transport.
• The Tasmanian Greens support native forest logging for high value timber, but do oppose native forest logging for wood chips.
• The Tasmanian Greens do not have a specific climate policy, so the goals and targets are drawn from the National Greens existing policy.

From a climate change perspective the policies are disappointing, lacking detail, containing significant omissions, weak goals, and too many calls for inquiries where there should be decisions for strong action. For a party that promotes itself as the leader on social justice and environment, and with four sitting members, the Tasmanian Greens should have done better.

Labor

The lack detail in Tasmania's Labor Party policies makes the Green's policies look like a Doctoral thesis.

The lack of detail (14/1/10) on any issues let alone climate change makes assessing the Tasmanian Labor policy an impossible task because they simply don't have any.

However like the Greens, we will use Federal Labor policy to assess "goals" and "international" policy.

Liberals

No climate change policy but, unlike Labor, at least the Liberals actually have some policy, including a whole section on accountable Government (which seems to be what Labor is trying to avoid by not having any policy) and the policies even have some detail.

The stand out policies were their support for wind power including smale scale wind, free bus travel for students, and a decision to investigate light rail for Hobart.

Other than a specific policy dealing with forest protesters and several more looking at road building, there was not much else relating to climate change.