The Liberals' plan to open up World Heritage Area and national parks to more tourism developments has been contentious from day one — now, it has attracted the attention of Tasmania's auditor-general.
Under the EOI program, the project's assessment is not guided by legislation but an internal government process to identify potential projects and to guide proponents through other relevant approval processes."Including the lack of clarification from the Government on what it sees as 'appropriate and sensitive' development in reserves, the potential environmental and access impact on reserve areas and the transparency of the decision making process," he said.
"The coordinator-general's office is hugely problematic. That's where developers and special interests go when they want to get the Government's attention and get a deal through," she said.
There is clarity and consistency in how regard is given to other relevant processes and approval requirements in related procurement policy documents ; and The extent to which advice was provided by Crown Law or the Solicitor-General and whether that advice was implemented or not."It's been a very high-profile, contentious policy since day one, so it's appropriate for the auditor-general to investigate," he said.
Mr Martin said the program had achieved its main"goal of bringing forward proposals from the market that frankly was dealing with an attitude that Tasmania was too hard to be able to consider projects"."From both the proponents perspective but also land managers perspective, from our perspective the EOI process is hugely important to Tasmania's tourism and our capacity to become a nature tourism destination.
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