Culture / Tasmania

Tasmania's St Marys Pass upgrade could cost almost $3b

2 Oct 2026 06:40 AEST Summary

Infrastructure Roads Travel and Tourism Tourism and Leisure Industry Local Government

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A notoriously windy stretch of road in Tasmania could be upgraded with pricing revealed to be as high as $2.7 billion to re-route the road.

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Headline as published: Tasmania's notorious St Marys Pass upgrade could cost almost $3b

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Niral Score 12.5 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment -0.4 hostilefavourable Sourcing 70 unattributednamed sources Mood 52.1 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Outlet	Niral Score
ABC News (Business)as they published this story	12.5

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