Question – Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council Workplan
Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 16 June 2020 and answered for the Government by the Hon Peter Gutwein MP, Premier on 24 June 2020
QUESTION (1) The Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PESRAC) has outlined in its Workplan that as part of Stage I a consultation stage will be undertaken with targeted stakeholders and peak groups to be invited to participate. Please detail the following:
(a) Which individuals, organisation, government agencies, peak bodies, and any others, were invited to participate in Stage One consultation?
(b) Were any consultation guides, background material, prompt questions, or any indication of preferred manner of input provided by PESRAC to those invited to participate in Stage one consultation? If so, can they please be provided?
ANSWER:
1(a) The Council, through its Secretariat, wrote to the following peaks to seek written input for Phase I of the consultation process:
- Architects Tasmania
- Aviation Access Working Group
- Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association Incorporated
- Civil Construction Association
- Civil Constructors Federation
- Commissioner for Children and Young Persons
- Coordinator General
- Disability Services Tasmania
- Early Childhood Australia
- Engineers Australia
- Fruit Growers Association
- Housing Industry Association
- LGAT
- Master Builders Australia
- Mental Health Council
- Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia
- Music Tasmania
- Premier’s Youth Advisory Council
- Primary Health Tasmania
- Property Council
- Real Estate Institute of Tasmania
- Regional Development Entities
- Regional Recovery Committees
- Sport and Recreation – Department of Communities (as proxy for industry)
- State Control Centre
- State Recovery Committee
- TAFE
- T as Salmon Growers Association
- TasCOSS
- TaslCT
- Tasmania Maritime Network
- Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
- Tasmanian Chamber Alliance
- Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI)
- Tasmanian Council of Churches
- Tasmanian Development Board
- Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Associate (TFGA)
- Tasmanian Hospitality Association (THA)
- Tasmanian Logistics Committee
- Tasmanian Minerals, Manufacturing and Energy Council (TMEC)
- Tasmanian Regional Aboriginal Communities Alliance
- Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council
- Tasmanian Small Business Council (TSBC)
- Tenants Union
- Tourism Industry Council Tasmania (TICT)
- Unions Tas
- University of Tasmania
1 (b) To supplement this process, the Secretariat also sought to have discussions with the majority of peaks above, and in many cases, such discussions were able to be scheduled within the timeframes available for this task.
The Secretariat, with the support of TasCOSS, held a workshop with the TasCOSS peak group to hear directly from those peak organisations, and received submissions from some of those peaks, in addition to the TasCOSS submission.
In addition to the above process, the Secretariat sought input from all government agencies and Departmental Recovery Group networks, including the Agriculture Coordination Group and the Seafood Industry Recovery Coordination Group.
The Council has also received unsolicited submissions and correspondence that has also been considered through the work program.
The letters to the peak organisations asked a consistent set of questions as follows:
- What impacts are currently being seen by your sector or members (including clients/households/individuals as relevant in your context) and what impacts are anticipated in the coming weeks and months?
- What factors are likely to shape the medium and longer-term impacts for your sector/members?
- What data or information can currently be provided to the Council on the nature and magnitude of impacts for your sector/members?
- What mitigation measures are currently in place that aim to address these impacts?
- What impacts are not being mitigated or for which there is no plan in place to mitigate?
- What responses, both within the sector and more broadly, are front-of-mind and over what timeframes – what should be stopped, what should continue and what should be started?
- What would help create or build business/consumer/community confidence?
- What would help your sector/members re-employ where there have been reductions in jobs, or grow employment levels?
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