MEDIA
Pokies safety signage rejected
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 24 November 2021 AN ATTEMPT to have poker machines feature signs warning users of potential addiction was rejected by the Liberals and Labor in the upper house as debate continued on Tuesday evening. The major parties also blocked an attempt...
Future Gaming Bill tax rate is a gift to Federal Group
Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 23 November 2021 Meg Webb speaks about inequities in the proposed pokies tax rate and the missed opportunity to implement easy pokies harm minimisation measures in the Future Gaming Bill on Tasmania Talks with Mike O'Loughlin.See...
Exasperation as pokies amendments fail
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 23 November 2021 Equal tax rates for pokies and Keno across casinos, pubs and clubs, assessing the risks of simulated racing and automated table gaming, and parliamentary oversight of new casino licenses are just some of the amendments the...
Flurry of bills set to greet state’s upper house politicians
Matt Maloney | Examiner | 23 November 2021 Some independent upper house members have criticised the government's handling of its legislative agenda with one saying the Legislative Council has had not experienced such an end-of-year rush of bills in years.The...
Pokie tax ‘gift’ for Federal
David Killick | Mercury | 23 November 2021 THE unexplained difference between the tax rates proposed for gambling in pubs, clubs and casinos could benefit Federal Group by nearly $250m over the next 20 years, the Legislative Council has heard.Debate on the...
No budging on pokies bill
Adam Holmes| Examiner/Advocate | 18 November 2021 The government and Labor have rejected an attempt to limit the number of poker machines owned by an individual operator to 15 per cent of the Tasmanian market, instead sticking with a 25 per cent figure.It was one of...
Pokies laws look safe bet
David Killick | Mercury | 18 November 2021 Labor has been accused of “betraying the battlers of Tasmania” by voting to prevent further scrutiny of the government’s gambling reform legislation.CONTROVERSIAL gambling reforms look set to pass the Legislative Council in...
Pokies reforms under scrutiny
Sue Bailey | Mercury | 15 November 2021 THE future of the government’s controversial poker machine reforms will again be debated in the Legislative Council this week.At least one member of the Upper House it set to move for the Bill to be referred to a committee for...
Nelson MLC Meg Webb’s marathon six-and-a-half hour speech slams parties over pokies policy
Adam Holmes | Examiner/Advocate | 12 November 2021 Over the course of a six-and-a-half-hour speech in the upper house, Nelson independent MLC Meg Webb has laid bare her years of research into Tasmanian poker machine policy to slam the two major parties over the...
Webb’s pokie law marathon: Record seven-hour speech
David Killick | Mercury | 12 November 2021 TASMANIA’S Upper House members last night sat through what was labelled the Legislative Councils’ longest ever speech as debate surrounding gambling legislation dragged into the late hours of the evening.MLCs heard major...
Major parties beholden to gaming industry
7 News Tasmania | 11 November 2021 See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies Reform
Gaming bill turns its back on the community
WIN News| 11 November 2021 See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies Reform
Necessary corrections
Letter to the Editor | Mercury | 10 November 2021 GOOD to see support for appropriate scrutiny of the government's gaming Bill by the Upper House (Editorial November 9), however correction is required on a few matters.The government policy has never been publicly...
Labor MLCs ‘in the gun’ on gaming
Matt Maloney | Examiner | 9 November 2021 LABOR MLCs who do not stand by their previously held views on the damage caused by poker machines this week could have their pre-selection chances damaged, party powerbroker Tim Jacobson says.Mr Jacobson, who is the head of...
Cashing in: the gambling industry writes the rules and sways Tasmania’s elections
Stephanie Convery | The Guardian | 9 November 2021Bill before state’s upper house has ‘been literally written by industry’, an independent MP says.Tasmania became the first state in Australia to open a casino in 1973, and since then, it has become a place in which the...
Once in a generation chance
Kingborough Chronicle | 9 November 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC aims to send the Tasmanian Government’s contentious Future Gaming Markets legislation to a parliamentary inquiry this week.In a media release on Monday, November 8, Ms Webb questioned...
Election inquiry rejected
Kingborough Chronicle | 9 November 2021 An Upper House proposal for a joint committee inquiry into the conduct of Tasmania’s 2021 State and Legislative Council elections was rejected by a vote in Tasmania’s House of Assembly on October 27.The outcome has been...
Gaming bill will define the gambling landscape for decades
7 News Tasmania | 8 November 2021 There is a proposal to send the Gutwein Liberal Government’s contentious Future Gaming Markets legislation to a parliamentary inquiry this week. Meg Webb speaks about a on 7 News. See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies...
Problematic Future Gaming Markets Bill deserves close scrutiny
WIN News | 8 November 2021 The proposed Future Gaming markets model is as problematic as the current model. Meg Webb on WIN News. See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies Reform
Pre-selection threat for Tasmanian Labor MLCs over pokies stance in upcoming debate
Matt Maloney | The Advocate | 8 November 2021 The Legislative Council will debate the government's pokies reforms this week, with Labor votes crucial to it passing.Labor MLCs who do not stand by their previously held views on the damage caused by poker machines this...
Future Gaming Bill hits the Upper House
Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | 8 November 2021 Meg Webb speaks with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings about the Gutwein Government's Future Gaming Markets legislation scheduled for debate in the upper house this week. See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies...
Pokies reform facing a fight
Sue Bailey | Mercury | 8 November 2021 Community groups and independent MLCs are pushing for tougher scrutiny of proposed poker machine reforms, but the government insists the legislation must be approved “in a timely fashion”.THE Legislative Council is facing...
Media Release – Once in a Generation
ONCE IN A GENERATION 8 November 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC aims to send the Gutwein Liberal Government’s contentious Future Gaming Markets legislation to a parliamentary inquiry this week.“This bill needs further scrutiny on the grounds critical...
Tasmania in a unique position to save lives through youth justice reform
Emily Baker | ABC News | 31 October 2021 Read or watch Meg’s Raising the Age Motion speech here See more of Meg’s recent media.
Integrity Commission workload mounts
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 29 October 2021 THE number of complaints received by Tasmania's Integrity Commission increased again in the past 12 months, but the amount of investigations it launched and assessments it concluded decreased.The Integrity Commission -...
Future Gaming Bill scheduled for upper house debate
Kylie Baxter | ABC Drive | 28 October 2021 Meg Webb speaks with Kylie Baxter on ABC Drive about the Gaming Control Amendment (Future Gaming Market) Bill 2021. See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies Reform
Media Release – Liberals put self interest first
Media Release | 27 October 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the Gutwein Liberal Government has again put self-interest before Tasmania’s best interests.“The Gutwein Liberal Government’s vote to reject an Upper House proposal for a joint...
EDITORIAL – Right now, this independent could claim to be our real opposition
Editorial | Advocate | 27 October 2021 An upper house independent could make a reasonable claim to acting as the real opposition in Tasmania at present.Meg Webb came to prominence as an anti-pokies campaigner, and has continued that fight as the Member for Nelson.Of...
Tasmania’s Legislative Council agrees kids are not criminally responsible until age 14
Isabel Bird | Examiner | 28 October 2021 Kids as young as 10 can be sent to Ashley Youth Detention Centre. A motion calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 14 has passed in the Tasmanian Legislative Council.The minimum age of...
Media Release – Parliamentary debate on gaming bill shows disdain for community wishes
Media Release | 26 October 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called out both major parties for their contempt of the Tasmanian community on the issue of gaming reform.“The Parliamentary debate on the Gutwein Liberal Government’s industry-written...
