What is Tasmania Together?  

Tasmania Together is a unique project that allows the people of Tasmania to say what they want, and work together to achieve their long-term social, economic and environmental future. The project monitors our achievement of targets and sets goals for the future.

There are 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)

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For more information about Tasmania Together, visit: www.tasmaniatogether.tas.gov.au/about_tasmania_together

Your Life in 2020

How old will you be in 2020?  What will you be doing?  Will you still be at school, or maybe working, travelling or at Tafe or University?  Will you be old enough to drive and to vote?  Might you have children of your own by then?

If you could see into the future, how would you like it to be for you?  Would you keep everything just the same as it is now or would you change some things? 

When the Tasmania Together Progress Board consulted with the Tasmania community in 2005, people thought about what they liked and what they wanted changed.  They said they were concerned about things like

• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
• Improving services for people with disabilities and mental health issues;
• Improving how people feel about their community
• Reducing public hospital waiting times for elective surgery
• Tackling obesity in our community
• Reducing the death toll on our roads
• Alcohol abuse in young people and
• Improving literacy.

These are some of the issues that were raised in 2005. What issues are important to you, your family, friends or community in 2007? What do you think might be new issues that arise between now and 2020?

So what is Tasmania Together about?

Tasmania Together is a plan that identifies what is important, and what we need to work on if we're going to have the Tasmania we want by 2020.  This is the vision of the community:

Tasmania is an island community, unique for its natural and cultural environment, where people enjoy a prosperous lifestyle based on quality, creativity and opportunity.

There are also 12 goals, and more than 140 benchmarks (or ways to measure) our progress so far. 

For example, Goal 4 is "Active, healthy Tasmanians with access to quality and affordable health care services". 

We use lots of different benchmarks to measure our performance on this, but one measure is "the proportion of Tasmanians over 18 who eat at least 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables a day." 

How many serves of fruit do the adults in your family eat?  How do you think you could help us improve on this?  What could you do to increase the amount of fruit and vegetables that you and your family eat?  How could you make a difference to the amount of fruit and vegetables eaten by the people in your school?