Flinders Island road transport assistance

Flinders Island road transport assistance is now closed 

The Tasmanian Government through the Minister for Primary Industries and Water, Hon David Llewellyn, is providing up to $5,000 monetary assistance to eligible Flinders Island farmers. This will aid in providing cost equity with mainland Tasmanian counterparts for transport to assist in drought management.

The assistance is only for the land transport component - in recognition that goods and stock to and from Flinders need to complete two land transport legs as well as a shipping leg. The Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme (TFES) focuses on the shipping component. This land transport assistance will not affect eligibility to claim under the TFES.

The following assistance is available to eligible Flinders Island farmers (a commercial farmer is defined as contributing a majority of their labour and earning a majority of their income from farming) for the freight of stock off the island for agistment and the freight of the goods, as listed below, onto the island. Expenses to have been incurred between 11 March 2009 to 12 June 2009.

• $25 per head of cattle transported from the island to the Tasmanian mainland or Victoria for agistment
• $3 per head of sheep transported from the island to the Tasmanian mainland or Victoria for agistment
• $15 per large square or round bale of hay or silage
• $50 per tonne of grain, pellets, nitrogen fertiliser and pasture or forage seed