“Tasmania is an island community, unique for its natural and cultural environment, where people enjoy a prosperous lifestyle based on quality, creativity, and opportunity.”
This is the vision Tasmanians have for their State in the year 2020.
Tasmania Together is a pioneering project that allows the people of Tasmania to not only say what they want, but to work together to achieve their long-term social, economic and environmental future.
As a world-leading system of community goal setting and measurement of progress it is enshrined in law (Tasmania Together Progress Board Act 2001) and used to guide decision-making in the government, business and community sectors.
Tasmania Together is a vision for the State based on the wishes of the people. It includes 12 goals and 143 benchmarks that reflect the concerns people expressed during two of the biggest community consultation processes ever undertaken in Tasmania (in 2000 and 2005).
It is an ambitious long-term plan – owned and driven by the community – that aims to change the status quo. Overwhelmingly, Tasmanians want to live in safe, clean communities, with jobs and prosperity for everyone, and we want the world to be aware of our tolerance and compassion and skills in areas such as the arts, education and technology.
The 12 goals and 143 benchmarks in Tasmania Together provide Tasmania’s pathway to the future. They will help shape government policy, service delivery and budgets into the future and are being adopted by local government, business and industry, and community groups.
An independent statutory authority, the Tasmania Together Progress Board, monitors progress towards the achievement of the goals and benchmarks and results are reported to all Tasmanians through the Parliament.
This is a plan that belongs to the whole community, not a single government.
Now, with the benefit of a community-driven vision, we can build the kind of future people want and deserve, aimed at ensuring our children inherit a fairer, cleaner, safer and more prosperous Tasmania.
