Global InformationTasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme information
The Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme is an Australian Government scheme to provide financial assistance to shippers of freight between Tasmania and mainland Australia. The scheme aims to assist in alleviating the sea freight cost disadvantage incurred by shippers of eligible non‐bulk goods moved between Tasmania and the mainland of Australia.[1] It provides a freight subsidy to producers selling into Australian domestic markets, but not for exports outside of Australia.[2]
The scheme was first announced by Gough Whitlam.[3] It began in July 1976,[1] following the submission of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Transport to and from Tasmania, which is also known as the Nimmo Report,[4] by Commissioner James Nimmo.
- ^ a b Department of Infrastructure and Transport. "Background - Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme". Department of Infrastructure and Transport. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ^ Titmus, Leigh (4 March 2013). "Editorial: Bass Strait needs to be treated like a highway". The Advocate. Archived from the original on 4 March 2013.
- ^ Albanese, Anthony; Sid Sidebottom; Dick Adams (24 May 2012). "A New Deal for Tasmanian Exporters". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
- ^ Bureau of Transport Economics (1978). "Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme Recommended Northbound Assistance Rates at 1 January 1978" (PDF). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 November 2012.