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Industry comes out swinging against pokies harm measures

Industry comes out swinging against pokies harm measures

Adam Holmes | The Examiner | 26 July 2022Tasmania's poker machine sector has come out swinging against the government's consideration of card-based pre-commitment technology, questioning the scale of problem gambling in the state and describing the measure as "a blunt...

Concerns held for future of the state’s law reform institute

Concerns held for future of the state’s law reform institute

Matt Maloney | The Examiner | 23 July 2022The state's legal fraternity says the government needs to step up its funding commitment to the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to ensure its survival.A review of the institute, which was established in 2001 as the state's...

Law reform funding push

Law reform funding push

Rob Inglis | The Mercury | 23 July 2022TASMANIA’S premier law reform body has been hamstrung by “grossly inadequate” funding provisions, an independent review has found.Established in 2001, the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) receives proposals for research and...

Environment report delay

Environment report delay

Caitlin Jarvis | The Examiner | 21 July 2022Tasmania has not produced a State of Environment report since 2009, but the state government says the report is under review.A tale of the declining health of Australia's environment was presented in stark detail in the...

Pressure on Tassie’s ecosystems

Pressure on Tassie’s ecosystems

David Killick | The Mercury | 20 July 2022CONCRETE state government action must be taken to remedy some of the serious degradation highlighted in the federal State of the Environment report, the Greens say.Party spokeswoman Rosalie Woodruff said the report – released...

Reform is no fix: MP

Reform is no fix: MP

TASMANIA is missing an opportunity to strengthen transparency and integrity because important reforms are being done in piecemeal fashion, Legislative Council MP Meg Webb says.Releasing her submission to a lobbying review, the member for Nelson said the chance to...

Talking Point – We Deserve Better Checks and Balances

Talking Point – We Deserve Better Checks and Balances

Talking Point | Mercury Newspaper | 14 July 2022With reviews of political lobbying underway, we now have rare chance to improve transparency, writes Meg Webb.TASMANIA has been dogged for decades by the perception that close relationships and backroom deals give...

Media Release – Tougher Laws Needed to Regulate ‘Hired Guns’

Media Release – Tougher Laws Needed to Regulate ‘Hired Guns’

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the Integrity Commission review into Tasmania’s lobbying regulation system has exposed it to be one of the weakest and most ineffectual in the nation.“Currently there are 66, third-party ‘hired gun’ lobbyists on the...

Anti-Protest Briefings Inequity Claim

Anti-Protest Briefings Inequity Claim

Isabel Bird | The Examiner | 29 June 2022Environmentalists allege witnesses at a Legislative Council briefing of anti-protest laws were not told of mining company MMG representatives listening in to private testimony.The conduct has been publicly labelled as unusual...

kooparoona niara National Park – ABC Mornings

Media Release – kooparoona niara National Park Proposal

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today tabled a motion to disallow the Liberal State Government’s draft proclamation seeking to place in minor reserve status Crown Land, covered by the Aboriginal Land Council Tasmania’s formal claim for a kooparoona niara...

Success of Tasmanian Know Your Odds gambling campaign questioned

Success of Tasmanian Know Your Odds gambling campaign questioned

Ben Seeder | The Examiner | 13 June 2022Treasury data shows that Tasmanians' losses to poker machines are climbing, prompting some to doubt whether the government's Know Your Odds community campaign to reduce gambling harm is working.Statewide losses to poker machines...

Media Release – Minimum Age of Detention

Media Release – Minimum Age of Detention

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today welcomed the announcement Tasmania will move to raise the minimum age for detention from 10 years to 14 years.“However, I also urge the Tasmanian Government to also raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14,”...

Call to halt salmon farm developments in Tasmania

Call to halt salmon farm developments in Tasmania

Matt Maloney | The Examiner | 25 May 2022A sub-committee overseeing a Legislative Council inquiry into fin-fish farming says all environmental licence conditions for all existing fin-fish farms in Tasmania need to be reviewed.The inquiry, which started in 2019, has...

Media Release – Fin Fish Inquiry Report

Media Release – Fin Fish Inquiry Report

 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the tabling of Inquiry into Fin Fish Farming in Tasmania strongly encourages the State Government to ensure all future industry planning and regulation actively improves public confidence and builds the industry’s social...

Media Release – Land Tax Debate Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns

Media Release – Land Tax Debate Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today warned the Tasmanian Government’s latest Land Tax Rating bill creates a very real risk of perceived potential conflict of interest.“Real-time Parliamentary Pecuniary Interest declarations are needed and a proactive, routine...

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