It appears that the government has done everything it can to hide the proposed changes to the planning appeals tribunal. The only document released in the consultation process was a 121 page Draft Bill. No explanatory document to make it clear what the legislation was aiming to achieve. Most people who were aware of the Draft Bill would not have read it and few who did would have understood it. The government did not previously flag these changes with the community. Cynically the government released this draft bill on the 21 December 2021 when most people were on leave or distracted by Christmas.

This level of deceit, with a piece of legislation, with such a high level of public interest, is just about unprecedented in modern Tasmanian political history.