So true EQ.

Oh & Taswegian, give us back our CO2 plant food. It is far too valuable as a fertiliser to waste on a bunch of useless trees.

Sure, eliminate Bass Strait shipping subsidies - at the same time as all interstate highways become cost-recovering toll roads.

Mark Duffett, perhaps you have never heard of fuel tax?

We motorists, & the road transport pay 5 times over for the roads we use. In fact probably a large chunk of what we waste subsidizing Tasmania, a state that refuses to earn it's own living, comes from our fuel tax. It certainly is not spent on our roads, which was the excuse for introducing it in the first place. That is why it was originally called road tax.

Is there any connection that they are the least productive on economic and social scales to all other states as well as having the highest number of politicians per capita?