The Tasmanian Government is committed to providing opportunities for community involvement in the development of Government policy and we are seeking your input on the routine disclosure of Ministerial Diaries.
Since April 2023, diaries for Tasmanian Ministers have been released quarterly.
This information is publicly available on the Department of Premier and Cabinet Ministerial and Parliamentary Support Routine Disclosure website. This includes details of ministerial portfolios, visits, events attended, and media commitments.
Currently, personal or electorate meetings, internal government meetings with Ministers, staff, or government officials are not included.
A Discussion Paper which considers other jurisdictions' models and proposes changes to Tasmania’s routine disclosures has been developed.
We seek your feedback on the proposed changes.
All written submissions on the routine disclosure of Ministerial diaries must be received by 10pm on Monday, 8 December 2025.
Submissions can be made in writing to:
Submissions received will be published on the Department of Premier and Cabinet website in accordance with the Tasmanian Government’s Public Submission Policy.
Other than indicated below, submissions will be treated as public information and will be published on our website soon after the conclusion of the submission period.
No personal information other than an individual’s name or the organisation making a submission will be published.
The Government recognises not all individuals or groups are equally placed to access and understand information. We are therefore committed to ensuring Government information is accessible and easily understood by people with diverse communication needs.
Where possible, please consider typing your submission in plain English and providing it in a format such as Microsoft Word or equivalent.
The Government cannot take responsibility for the accessibility of documents provided by third parties.
Your name (or the name of the organisation) will be published unless you request otherwise.
In the absence of a clear indication that a submission is intended to be treated as confidential (or parts of the submission), the Department will treat the submission as public.
If you would like your submission treated as confidential, whether in whole or in part, please indicate this in writing at the time of making your submission clearly identifying the parts of your submission you want to remain confidential and the reasons why. In this case, your submission will not be published to the extent of that request.
Copyright in submissions remains with the author(s), not with the Tasmanian Government.
The Department will not publish, in whole or in part, submissions containing defamatory or offensive material. If your submission includes information that could enable the identification of other individuals, then either all or parts of the submission will not be published.
Information provided to the Government may be provided to an applicant under the provisions of the Right to Information Act 2009 (RTI). If you have indicated that you wish all or part of your submission to be treated as confidential, your statement detailing the reasons may be taken into account in determining whether or not to release the information in the event of an RTI application for assessed disclosure. You may also be contacted to provide any further comment.