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Submission DR165 \ STUDY OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE ON TASMANIA’S FLINDERS ISLAND APRIL31 2019March 2019 Economics and Financial Consulting | Study of Economics, Business and Social Structure on Tasmania’s Flinders Island Contents Key Findings……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4` The Structural Challenge for Flinders Council ..................................................................................................................................... 7 The Flinders Island Population Challenge ........................................................................................................................................... 8 An employment cohort ‘Tipping Point’? ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Unemployment and Underemployment........................................................................................................................................... 11 What This Means for Flinders Island ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Educational profile ............................................................................................................................................................................ 11 What This Means for Flinders Island Residents ................................................................................................................................ 11 What This Means for Flinders Island ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Business Experience .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 What That Means for Business on Flinders Island ............................................................................................................................ 13 1. PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 2. CHALLENGES FACING FLINDERS ISLAND ................................................................................................................................... 15 2.1. AUSTRALIAN 2016 CENSUS .................................................................................................................................................. 15 2.2. CHALLENGES FACING FLINDERS ISLAND .............................................................................................................................. 16 An ageing population ........................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Significant community volunteering masks a greater level of underlying disadvantage ................................................................. 16 High transport and travel costs ......................................................................................................................................................... 16 Constrained local government revenue raising capability ................................................................................................................ 17 3. APPROACH TO THIS REVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 3.1. DESKTOP RESEARCH ............................................................................................................................................................. 18 3.2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................... 18 3.3. SURVEY AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS ................................................................................................................................... 19 4. DETAILED FINDINGS .................................................................................................................................................................. 20 4.1. DEMOGRAPHICS ................................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.2. HOUSING .............................................................................................................................................................................. 20 4.3. EDUCATION, TRAINING AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................ 23 4.4. LIVELIHOODS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 24 4.5. VOLUNTEERING .................................................................................................................................................................... 25 4.6. TRANSPORT, TRAVEL AND FREIGHT .................................................................................................................................... 27 4.7. BUSINESS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 27 4.8. HEALTH ................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 4.9. COST OF LIVING .................................................................................................................................................................... 29 4.10. ARTS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 4.11. AGRICULTURE ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 5. STRATEGY AND INITIATIVES ...................................................................................................................................................... 33 STRATEGY FOR GROWTH AND AN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY OF LIFE ON FLINDERS ISLAND .................................... 33 Annexure A: Existing arrangements servicing the Flinders Island community .............................................................................. 38 AIR TRANSPORT ............................................................................................................................................................................ 38 FREIGHT / SEA TRANSPORT ......................................................................................................................................................... 38 TELECOMMUNICATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................. 38 POWER .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 ELECTRICITY COMMUNITY SERVICES OBLIGATIONS ................................................................................................................... 39 WATER COMMUNITY SERVICES OBLIGATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 39 HEALTH – MULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE ............................................................................................................................................ 40 FLINDERS ISLAND – BUSINESSES ON ISLAND ............................................................................................................................... 40 EDUCATION – FLINDERS ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL .......................................................................................................................... 41 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES/SUBSIDIES/POLICIES AFFECTING FLINDERS ISLAND .......................................................................... 42 2 • FTI Consulting LLP STUDY OF ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE ON TASMANIA’S FLINDERS ISLAND Flinders Island is one of Australia’s unique island of goods, materials, and transport, logistic, skills and access communities, in a pristine environment. With a rich difficulties, choices for young people, and skills and heritage including indigenous and European settlement, demographic trends are all impacting the shape and there are numerous assets that draw original sustainability of Flinders Island life. Some people fear local growth will compromise the qualities they value, however generations and more recent arrivals, and growing FTI Consulting’s survey found strong support for the need for numbers of visitors, to Flinders Island and the Furneaux population growth. Group. This Report identifies 5 immediate challenges for Flinders Council has been pro-active in investing in data that consideration by Flinders
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