Tasmania Together
presentation by
Hayden Jones
Community Indicators Workshop
Melbourne, 5-6 September 2006
Tasmania Together 2020
Tasmania’s 20 Year Social,
Environmental and Economic Plan
Tasmania Together is:
(a) A long-term social, environmental and
economic plan for the State’s
development for a period of 20 years; and
(b) An overarching framework for planning,
budgeting and policy priorities for the
government and non-government sectors.
Getting Started
Community
Leaders’ Group
(CLG)
Future Search
Conference
Public
Consultations
Benchmarks
Tasmania Together
Document
Tasmania Together
Progress Board
Input from Community
Database
Vision
and Goals
The Progress Board
• The Tasmania Together Progress Board is
set up by an Act of Parliament as an
Independent Statutory Authority
• Monitor, promote and report on TT
• Nine members – regional, gender balance
• Reports directly to the people through
Parliament
• Tripartisan and genuinely independent
Progress Reports
• Detail progress on benchmarks and
contributions from community, business
and government sectors
• Every two years – tabled in Parliament
• Close collaboration with agencies/ABS
• Highlights priority areas for attention
Implementation
• Framework for budget – new funding initiatives
• Priority benchmark clusters for agencies
• TT IDC - Government Activity Report
• Corporate and strategic planning – State and
Local Government
• Partners and Coalitions of Interest
5 Year Review
• Re-engage community and
update the plan
• August–December 2005 – public consultation
• Community forums, on-line, written submissions,
questionnaires, ‘catch the bus’
• Focus – most important issues, what’s changed,
what needs to change and what needs reporting
on
• Feedback used to develop new goals and
benchmarks for a revised TT
• New areas for benchmarks – community
connection, ageing, housing costs, disability
services, road safety, skills shortage
Revised Tasmania
Together Document
• 1 new vision:
24 goals to 12 goals
212 benchmarks to approximately 170
• Few benchmarks without data source or
targets
• Approximately 60 new benchmarks
• Recommendations to Parliament in
November
New Benchmarks
• Young people at risk of alcohol-related harm
• Levels of community literacy
• House price to income ratio
• People who are overweight or obese
• Primary carers devoting >20 hours per week
• Complaints to the ADC on grounds of
disability, sexual orientation and race
Board’s Focus in 2006
Legislative Priorities
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Finalising the 5 Year Review of Tasmania Together
2006 Progress Report to Parliament
Releasing revised Tasmania Together document
Data management for future reporting
Raising Profile and Awareness
• Publishing ‘What We Heard’
• Revised Tasmania Together document
• Partners Program/COIs
Issues
• Community ownership, awareness and
engagement
• Community surveys & community indicators
• Consulting and involving marginalised groups
• Surviving political change
Further Information:
www.tasmaniatogether.tas.gov.au