There are millions of dollars for roadworks, relief for small business including a number of start-up distilleries, but Tasmania's hopes of attracting extra health and education funding haven't been realised in the federal budget.
With some of Australia's worst student numeracy and literacy rates and an ageing population, the island state has come to regard itself as a special needs case.
But there were no favours in Treasurer Scott Morrison's financial plan revealed on Tuesday.
Liberal premier Will Hodgman didn't cheer at the outcome.
"It appears funding for education, health and the GST is broadly in line with expectations for the coming year," he said.
"We are still working through the finer details."
Hobart-based federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie was scathing of the budget and said it shows Tasmania isn't on the coalition's map of Australia.
"Health remains chronically underfunded," he said, adding that education dollars are also well below what is needed.
"Tasmania overwhelmingly gets a very raw deal in this budget."
The future of Australia's only federally funded hospital, north Tasmania's Mersey, also hangs in the balance with the current deal due to expire in mid-2017 and no further mention in Tuesday's papers.
There was no word of the $150 million co-contribution needed by the University of Tasmania for a new northern campus, generating jobs, boosting education opportunities and attracting international students - a spend Labor has already promised.
But it wasn't all bad news for the apple isle.
With Tasmania's economy growing at the fastest rate in six years, Mr Hodgman welcomed benefits for small to medium-sized companies, which includes a tax rate cut for businesses with annual turnover of less than $10 million, plus access to tax concessions.
"Small businesses are one of our state's largest employers, with an estimated 36,800 small businesses employing about 100,000 Tasmanians," he said.
"Importantly, many of these jobs are in regional areas, with two in five small businesses located outside our city centres."
Severe youth unemployment rates in regional Tasmania could get a leg-up from a new national initiative to get people into work.
Meanwhile the state's ailing dam levels could be future proofed with the assistance of a $2 billion national water infrastructure concessional loan scheme with 25 years to pay back the debt.
Some 40,000 Tasmanians will benefit from proposed changes to income tax brackets, Mr Hodgman said.
"Instead of up to $14 million in taxes going to Canberra, this money will stay in the pockets of Tasmanians and be spent locally."
