Legislative Council, Wednesday 24 September 2025
Ms FORREST question to MINISTER for INFRASTRUCTURE and TRANSPORT, Mr VINCENT
With regard to the government commitment to undertake a feasibility study of expansion or renewal of the Port of Grassy on King Island, can you please:
(1) Provide an update on the progress of this study; and
(2) What are the next steps after the completion of the study?
ANSWER
Mr President, I thank the member for the question. I will seek advice.
We’re expecting that report anytime now over the next month to six weeks. There have been different things put in place and in my conversations with the CEO of TasPorts. He has also shown a willingness to go over there himself and talk to any of the local people, whenever I need, to make sure that everything’s done.
We have committed $150,000 to revisit and do the study. Once we know what’s in that report we can program it to be done as quickly as possible during 2026. Some of the things have already started to be worked through. At this point I haven’t received the report.