04/08/2026
We did offer a service that would fix this problem...🙄🙋🛳️
Apparently Tasmania’s $528 million icebreaker can handle Antarctica.
It just can’t get to the fuel pump in Hobart.
The RSV Nuyina is still making a 670-kilometre round trip to Burnie to refuel, costing taxpayers nearly $900,000 a year.
The State Government was meant to provide a permanent solution by July 31.
Its big idea so far?
Roll in some trucks.
The Commonwealth described that proposal as “far from acceptable”, which is government language for: surely you can do better than this.
Tasmania is supposed to be Australia’s Antarctic gateway. We need a proper refuelling solution in Hobart, not an annual taxpayer-funded sightseeing trip up the coast.
Only in Tasmania’s bureaucracy. 🚢
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