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[Rod and Mavis]

Greetings all.

Following is an extract that has been passed to all caravan and motor home clubs in Aus.

Please read.

My letter to the Tasmanian Minister concerned is below that. Please action as we would hate to lose Tassie as a destination because of Goverment bungling inspired by a few caravan parks having negative input.

Hi All,

As you are hopefully aware we have a serious problem in Tasmania in regards to budget camping. The Regulator acting on the complaints of 4 caravan park owners is trying to make all budget camps and council controlled free or low cost sites charge the same fee as caravan parks.

We must treat this as serious as it could become a virus if passed and in time spread to the mainland. There is a submission paper put out by the Government in regards to this which is due to be viewed on Dec 6th. Time is to short for the NACC to go through this submission and state our case in regards to this problem.

But what we can do is to get members of our local and state clubs write a letter of concern stating item such as the high cost of the ferry means that for RV travelers on fixed incomes have to be able to stay in budget camp areas if they so wish so as they can afford to travel around Tassie.There will be many other points that I,m sure that folk will be able to use.

The emails are to be sent to The Hon Bryan Green mp deputy Premier of Tasmania and his email address is <bryan.green@parliament.tas.gov.au>,

Please do the best that you can do in getting this message out to all clubs where possible and I understand that the time is short.

Many thanks for your help with this urgent matter .

Cheers

Brian Kelleher

Chairman

NACC

MY LETTER TO THE MINISTER.

To The Hon Bryan Green mp deputy Premier of Tasmania

Dear sir.

It is with great concern that I write to you with regard to the proposed fees to be imposed on budget/free camps in Tasmania.

My wife and I had the pleasure of visiting your great State earlier this year. We spent two months touring and camping in our self contained caravan.

We enjoyed the experience so much that we made the decision to return in November 2012 and stay for 6-7 months to explore the Island properly.

We found that the majority of towns in Tassie were most friendly and those without caravan parks provided wonderful free camp areas.

In towns supplying this free camp service we always make a point of rewarding the community by supporting the local businesses by the purchase of fuel and the necessities of life.

A negative experience on our trip resulted in wide spread publicity.

We arrived at Wynyard to a free camp in the show ground. Posted as a free camp in the Camps 6 booklet which is used by most travellers these days.

We were most distressed to find a sign on the gate forbidding caravans to camp in this spot, motor homes only. Please see attached blog post.

This cut short our stay in the area and we carried our need for fuel top up and re stock of the pantry and beverage supplies on to our next stop.

We had several friends comeing over on the boat a few days after us so as you do we phoned them to tell them to bypass Wynyard explaining why.

This bad publicity expanded to our travel blog, which is written by us and enjoyed by many like minded travellers.

See http://travellin.kyd.com.au/2011/03/28/trip-to-tassie-week-six/

Again this bad publicity extended even further to our caravan club members and friends in other clubs.

We would be most distressed to see Tasmania ignored as a caravan/ motorhome/ camper destination by owners of these means of mobile accommodation.

The impost of the ocean trip to Tasmania is a heavy burden in itself for most low budget travellers as a lot of retirees are.

As low budget travellers we still have to eat and use fuel for our travels. I am sure that our contribution to the Tasmanian economy is not insubstantial.

We urge you most strongly to retain the great atmosphere and experience that comes from visiting Tasmania for all to share.

Yours most sincerley

Rod & Mavis Kyd

on the track

Rod and Mavis

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[Rod and Mavis]

To those that took the time to send a comment on the above important subject, we thank you. You should all have received the reply from the Minister.

For those that did not manage to get their comment away in time and may be interested, please see the attached.

On behalf of Deputy Premier, Bryan Green MP please find attached a copy of Minister Green's response.

Kind regards

Caitlyn Dodge

Office of Hon Bryan Green MP

DEPUTY PREMIER

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

Minister for Energy and Resources

Minister for Local Government

Minister for Planning

Minister for Racing

Level 10, Executive Building

15 Executive Building

Hobart TAS 7000

P: 03 6233 6454

F: 03 6233 2272

E: caitlyn.dodge@dpac.tas.gov.au

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[J Kelly]

Thanks Rod for taking the time to write on an important issue.

Good to see that there is a positive response in the reply.

Regards, JK.

[Nev and Penny]

Thanks Rod and others who sent emails to the Minister.

Cheers Nev & Penny