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Huon Highway Roadworks September October 2021

25/8/2021

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Allow extra 10 minutes travel Huon Valley to Hobart during September and October 2021
The Department of State Growth is undertaking rock cutting stabilisation on the Huon Highway, between Sandfly and Lower Longley. The works involve installing rockfall mesh and rock catching fencing along the exposed rock face on the southbound side of the Huon Highway. The delivery of this project will reduce the risk of rockfalls on this section of road, creating a safer road for all road users.

We will be working from 7.00 am to 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday. The work is expected to
be complete by late October 2021, weather permitting. Occasionally we will need to work outside
these hours and will let you know in advance when possible.

During these works both lanes of traffic closest to the rockface will be closed for the duration of the project, including
outside of working hours. Traffic Lights will be used to hold both directions of traffic while work is
being undertaken. 

Road users should allow up to eight minutes extra travel time during this work.

Please refer to the map for location details. If you have any questions, please contact our Stakeholder Engagement Consultant, Louella Horne on 0491 696 701 or lhorne@pittsh.com.au.
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Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania supports mandatory vaccines for Tasmanian travel

20/8/2021

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Tourism Industry Council Tasmania (TICT) is the peak body representing the Tasmanian tourism industry. It is a not-for-profit organisation, promoting the value of tourism and advocating on behalf of our industry. At the 2021 annual Tasmanian Tourism Conference, TICT Chair Daniel Leesong, explained the position as follows: 
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'... Friends, while we welcome the support of government and our fellow Tasmanians, the fact is no matter how much government support is made available, no industry can operate indefinitely in such uncertain market conditions
 
The hard truth is some 18 months since borders first closed, we are today looking at the most uncertain conditions we’ve had yet – with COVID seemingly out of control in NSW, no absolute certainty of when borders might again open to our main markets in NSW and Victoria, and No Job Keeper to secure our workforce and provide an industry safety net. 
 
The voucher program and the grants announced last week are timely and appropriate – but they are short-term measures. 
 
We simply cannot go on for long like this, without it leading to severe consequences for many of us in this room – and the broader Tasmanian economy. 
 
How realistically do you manage your staffing levels in this uncertainty? 
 
Are we needing to urgently reduce our staffing levels, or do we need to try and hold on to them in expectations for a promising, busy summer? 
 
How do you plan investment? Negotiate with Banks, or Creditors, or Suppliers? 
 
The fact is we need certainty as employers, and as an economy.  
 
The national cabinet has set a clear target to end mass lockdown restrictions when we hit a 70 percent vaccination rate – and then a commitment to unrestricted travel for vaccinated Australians, when we hit 80 percent.
  
As an industry, we must expect this to mean an end to border restrictions as we know them now. Irrespective of the state of Covid in the larger States. 
 
When we hit those targets as expected in October or November, we simply must find a more sustainable way to manage the COVID risk to Tasmania without the need to apply hard borders with the other States. 
 
Keeping Tasmanians safe will always be our priority – but so to is securing Tasmanian livelihoods.
 
In this context, at our meeting yesterday, the TICT Board endorsed a position that we now propose to the Tasmanian Government;
 
Firstly we cannot urge strongly enough to our businesses and their staff, please get vaccinated.
 
We also stress to government the critical importance to businesses of certainty around the vaccination threshold to ensure unrestricted movement from mainland Australia to Tasmania. 
 
And finally, and crucially – we support the principle of mandatory vaccines for the issuing of Tas E-Travel passes.
 
In effect, making vaccination mandatory to enter the State without the risk of quarantining or other restrictions, as there are now. 
 
This would make us one of the first destinations in the world to have this system in place, but also show now that we as an industry want to strike a balance between certainty, and ensuring Tasmanians are protected as much as they can be in the new Covid norm. 
 
It is a responsible position for us to take as an industry – and it increasingly looks to be the right position to take if we are to find a way out of our current circumstances...' 

- Daniel Leesong, TICT Chair, 19 August 2021 
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