ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

ANL

Australian National Line

BITRE

Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics

BSPVES

Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme

CPI

Consumer Price Index

ISC

Inter-State Commission

KPM

Key Performance Measure

MDs

Ministerial Directions

PBO

Parliamentary Budget Office

PBS

Portfolio Budget Statements

PC

Productivity Commission

SME

small and medium enterprises

TEU

twenty-foot equivalent unit

TFES or the scheme

Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme

the ‘Nixon Review’

Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme Review Authority (1998)

the department

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

TWFS

Tasmanian Wheat Freight Scheme

USS

United States Ship