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CHANGE RACT’S STATE BUDGET submission urges the government to focus on road safety, writes Garry Bailey.
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asmania has an unprecedented opportunity in 2022 to set new benchmarks in making our island state the safest in the nation. The state budget to be handed down in May comes at a pivotal time – the emergence (hopefully) from the two years of the pandemic, when keeping Tasmanians safe was paramount, and a long-overdue focus on tackling death and serious injury on our roads.
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The pandemic changed our thinking: it was not just the government’s responsibility to keep us safe, it was everyone’s. The much-anticipated report by the Legislative Council Select Committee on Road Safet y will g ive Tasmania the opportunity to sheet home the message that keeping Tasmanians safe on our roads is also everyone’s responsibility. The RACT, on behalf of the 210,000 members we advocate for, has seized this opportunity – first through its submission to the inquiry and
