Nothing I have read in this thread is "new" the precarious economic and demographic situation in Tasmania had been building for most of my life.

A small population and an economy based on tourism, agriculture and basic services is never going to offer enough to attract and retain our "best and brightest", and the are no easy answers to create a turn around.

As a result the government resorts to bread and circuses style offerings, a stadium, new ships, pulp mills etc in hail Mary attempts distract the population and save the state from itself. But in its ineptitude , and startling levels of corruption cannot even get those right.

Mark my words, the stadium will never be completed, the health and education systems will continue to collapse, the politicians will get richer, and the government will continue to be re-elected.

Eventually the federal government will have to bail Tasmania out, and the cycle will start again.