The Federal Government said it's listening bit it's waiting for details before it stumps up(掏腰包) any cash. Steven Smiley reports. 

 

Tasmania's west coast is reeling from the double blow of two mine closures announced in one week. Hundreds of well-paid, skilled jobs have gone overnight. The task of luring new employers will be long and hard, but suggestions aren't in short supply. 

 

We had to say no, twice. We've had a brick, somewhat make a brick factory, making bricks from the local soils. And another one was long cabbies. 

 

Tourism and agriculture are the main hopes with some projects already under scrutiny. 

 

Our top economy is in the Pacific, there are … and we are still working with them. But what we can't do is to give avenue for these projects to be fast-track where it's possible. 

 

The Federal Government has been criticized for not stumping up cash. 

 

Hitting you and not doing anything about it today, it's not helping the situation and it's disgraceful. We can't take it through a full month to … that happened here. And it's been done …. 

 

What do you expect people to do? To start building Disneyland on the west coast tomorrow? And let's be serious about this. 

 

The Commonwealth says it will consider a project put forward by the Tasmanian government's working group.

 

Steven Smiley, ABC News. 

 

Now checking these international markets: 

 

In Europe they closed for the weak. 

 

London’s FTSE 100 closed up 17 points, the DAX Europe stocks were also up. 

 

America's markets also closed in positive territory with the Dow Jones at 16,944, at, and the Nasdaq was down slightly at 4,415.