Introduction

Background

The Tasmanian Government is determined to make Tasmania the best place in the nation to live, work, raise a family, invest and do business.

Small business accounts for more than 97 per cent of all businesses in the state, provides over one third of private sector employment, and plays a crucial role in regional development, community wellbeing and innovation. As such, a key pillar of the Tasmanian Government’s plan is supporting small business through the development of the Small Business Growth Strategy 2037 – a strong strategy that will establish government and private sector priorities and action areas, enabling Tasmania’s small‑business sector to grow and thrive.

To achieve this, the Department of State Growth, on behalf of the Tasmanian Government, is undertaking targeted consultation to refresh the current strategy by capturing new challenges and opportunities that have emerged since the last consultation four years ago.

The consultation is seeking input from representative organisations and peak bodies, as well as Tasmanian small businesses and members of the public with an interest in small business.

Consultation

The consultation will gather insights on the current strategy’s themes and objectives to confirm that everything is still relevant, and to check whether anything needs to be tweaked.

Because the consultation undertaken in 2022 was extensive, it is not expected that significant changes to the strategy will be required.

Specifically, this consultation process aims to seek input on:

  • Whether the four themes in the current strategy still represent what’s important to Tasmanian businesses
  • Whether the objectives that sit under each of the four themes in the current strategy are still the key areas that should be focused on
  • Challenges or opportunities that have emerged since the last strategy was developed in 2022

The outcome of the consultation process will be a refreshed version of the existing strategy.

Have your say

We invite you to share your insights in one of the following ways:

  1. Complete the online survey.
  2. Provide a written submission via:
    • The online form below - submissions can be entered directly into the text box or you can upload your own file in Word or PDF format.
    • Email: ask@business.tas.gov.au
    • Post: Small Business Growth Strategy 2037, GPO Box 536, Hobart TAS 700

Targeted questions are included in the Discussion Paper to help you prepare your submission. You may wish to comment on only one or two matters of interest, or respond to all questions. Feedback closes 2pm, Friday 15 May 2026.

If you need access to a translating and interpreting service, please call 1800 440 026.

Other than indicated below, submissions will be treated as public information and will be published on this page after the consultation process closes.

No personal information other than an individual’s name or the organisation making a submission will be published.

Tasmanian Government Submission Policy

In the absence of a clear indication a submission is intended to be treated as confidential (or parts of the submission), the Department of State Growth 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 identify 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 of State Growth 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.

The Right to Information Act 2009 and confidentiality

Information provided to the Tasmanian Government may be provided to an applicant under the provisions of the Right to Information Act 2009 (RTI). If you have indicated 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 to release the information in the event of an RTI application for assessed disclosure. You may also be contacted to provide further comment.