New Governance, Green Planning and Sustainability: Tasmania Together and Growing Victoria Together 1
,intermsoftheirpotentialtopromotesustainability.It argues that they are very different exercises in new governance, aimed at reconnecting withcommunityprioritiesandatredirectingmacro-policysettingawayfromapreoccupationwitheconomic priorities, respectively. Nevertheless, both plans have the capacity to ‘green’ stateplanning, in Tasmania in terms of more purposeful benchmarks, and in Victoria in terms ofenhancedsustainabilityemphasisinthemacro-policysetting.Thearticleencounterstensionsin its review of the plans between deliberation and planning, policy empowerment and pol-icy progress, and policy institutionalisation and politicisation as means of achieving policychange. It finds that whilst Tasmania and Victoria are re-engaged states that are reinventingstate policy, as yet they are failing to meet the governance challenges of sustainability.