Obstacles to progress: what¹s wrong with Tasmania, really?

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Obstacles to progress: what’s wrong with Tasmania, really?

AUTHOR: Jonathan West, Director, Australian Innovation Research Centre at University of Tasmania

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: Jonathan West does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.

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If Tasmania is broken, maybe it’s because Tasmanians have no reason to fix it.

Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of Tasmania, is publishing a series of provocations. Our authors ask where does Tasmania’s future lie? Has it reached a “tipping point”, politically, economically and culturally? Thinkers, writers and doers from Tasmania and beyond, including members of its extensive diaspora, challenge how Tasmania is seen by outsiders and illuminate how Tasmanians see themselves, down home and in the wider world.

Tasmania’s underlying problem is simple but intractable: it has developed a way of life, a mode of doing things, a demographic, a culture and associated economy, that reproduces under-achievement generation after generation .... To read more by going to the link below

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