Comments on: Seat of the Day 2: Bass http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/13/seat-of-the-day-2-bass/ Politics, elections and piffle plinking Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:24:54 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Scotty J http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/13/seat-of-the-day-2-bass/comment-page-1/#comment-11790 Scotty J Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:41:03 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3362#comment-11790 It always been the case really that young people leave Tassie for better paying jobs on the mainland. Even around federation it was an old saying that "Tasmania's best export was its youth". As someone who lives in Hobart it kinda hurts my feelings to be called rural. :( It always been the case really that young people leave Tassie for better paying jobs on the mainland. Even around federation it was an old saying that “Tasmania’s best export was its youth”. As someone who lives in Hobart it kinda hurts my feelings to be called rural. :(

]]> By: Possum http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/13/seat-of-the-day-2-bass/comment-page-1/#comment-11689 Possum Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:07:32 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3362#comment-11689 The Tassie age profile is pretty much the same as most rural and regional electorates on the mainland - no doubt a consequence of the exact thing you mention. Although, the 1990's might have just exaggerated the "young flight" problem that is usually always hanging around anyway - at least in rural and regional seats. Some of the QLD regional seats have been getting a young person substitution effect of late (and not only related to the resources boom) where one set of young folk move out while an entirely separate group move in to replace them. I wonder if it would be in Tasmania's interest to try and replicate that phenomenon? The Tassie age profile is pretty much the same as most rural and regional electorates on the mainland – no doubt a consequence of the exact thing you mention. Although, the 1990’s might have just exaggerated the “young flight” problem that is usually always hanging around anyway – at least in rural and regional seats.

Some of the QLD regional seats have been getting a young person substitution effect of late (and not only related to the resources boom) where one set of young folk move out while an entirely separate group move in to replace them.

I wonder if it would be in Tasmania’s interest to try and replicate that phenomenon?

]]> By: Kevin Bonham http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/01/13/seat-of-the-day-2-bass/comment-page-1/#comment-11688 Kevin Bonham Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:02:32 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/?p=3362#comment-11688 Notice that Bass and Tassie generally have a sharp dip in the 25-34 age group and to a lesser extent 35-44 cf the rest of Australia. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing that's the influence of young people in the 1990s (when the state's economy was a basket-case) leaving the state in search of work elsewhere and never coming back. Notice that Bass and Tassie generally have a sharp dip in the 25-34 age group and to a lesser extent 35-44 cf the rest of Australia. I don’t know for sure but I’m guessing that’s the influence of young people in the 1990s (when the state’s economy was a basket-case) leaving the state in search of work elsewhere and never coming back.

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