The Examiner has speculated before that a transfer of the university campus to Inveresk would spark a huge flow-on effect. A figure of $180 million has been touted as the overall investment. It raises questions about the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery's home and what happens to TAFE and the Australian Maritime College.

The possibilities are enormous for the Inveresk site, so close to the city. Where do students live, where do they park and what happens to the prime real estate at Newnham?

It is a future that needs the input of other stakeholders, such as the Abbott government, the Launceston City Council, Launceston Chamber of Commerce and Cityprom.

How does Launceston maximise the opportunities falling into its lap. How does Northern Tasmania ensure that this is not an investment squandered?

The south may be feeling a little lonely and ignored and to that end we empathise. Welcome to our world, and the years of being on the receiving end of precious little.

Of course, capital cities usually have more spent on them than the regions, but not at the expense of the regions. The glowing dichotomy of the North and South, compounded by a blatantly Hobart-centric cabinet was a festering joke.

The beauty of the Inveresk plan is it makes sense and could hardly be called pork barrelling. Tasmania's population has not reached the stage where more than one university could thrive. Hence we have regional campuses of UTAS.

It is our duty to make sure these regional campuses provided value for money, and there is little value with the current circumstances, in having a split university campus and a split museum and art gallery, with a TAFE college somewhere in between.