Despite a keg of consultation, Uni Tasmania’s plan to move most of the Hobart campus into the CBD continues unpopular

And Liberal senator for the state Eric Abetz, has asked the Australian National Audit Office to have a look at the plan to assess whether it is value for “substantial sums of taxpayer dollars which find their genesis from the Federal Government and fee paying students under the HEC Scheme.”

To which Auditor General Grant Hehir responds he “will consider the matter … as part of the work programme consultation process.”

The programme will not be published until July, but in the meantime Senator Abetz can tell constituents he tried. This may be of some help in the imminent election campaign where he is in the difficult third spot on the Liberal Party ticket for the upper house.