The Board of the Integrity Commission has been reviewing Tasmania's lobbying oversight system since mid 2022. We appreciate all stakeholders' contributions to this important process.
The current Lobbyists Register and Lobbying Code of Conduct will be maintained and administered in their current form.
While the Board has decided not to proceed with the lobbying reform project, this is our recommended model.
Our first round of consultation was in May-July 2022. We published a consultation paper (PDF, 1.1 MB) identifying issues and risks associated with lobbyists and lobbying within State Government and their potential impact on public decisions.
A detailed research report (PDF, 1.9 MB) accompanied the consultation paper and examined the topic in more depth.
We received 28 submissions to this round of consultation.
In October 2022 we published an Interim Report setting out an overview of the key points raised in the submissions.
Following receipt and consideration of submissions in 2022, we developed an initial draft lobbying framework report setting out a number of recommendations, focusing on the principles of transparency and accountability.
We provided this report to a number of potentially affected parties in late 2022, including Members of Parliament, the Joint Standing Committee on Integrity, and the Head of the State Service. In February and March 2023, we received 6 submissions to this initial draft.
In June 2023 we released the ‘Model for Reform of Lobbying Oversight in Tasmania’. It set out the Board’s proposed model for reform. This model took into account stakeholder input throughout the consultation process detailed above. We provided the Model to previous submitters in June 2023.
In October 2023 we made some final refinements to a number of elements of the model. We then wrote to all submitters giving them a summary of the new model, as set out in this table:
This page was last updated on 10 Apr 2026.
