MEDIA
Tasmania out of step with other states on student testing: Meg Webb
Helen Kempton | Mercury | 6 February 2022 A member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council says Tassie is out of step with interstate student and teacher testing guidelines and wants a rethink to stop school restart outbreaks.There are claims that Tasmania’s Education...
Media Release – School Reopening and RATs
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called for the State Government to release Public Health RAT advice for Tasmania’s State Schools return this week.“There is an apparent disparity between Tasmania’s RAT (Rapid Antigen Test) regime for students and staff...
We’re being duped, but there is hope
Simon Bevilacqua | Mercury | 5 February 2022 TASMANIANS are being played as fools by both major political parties, whose priority is not the wellbeing of the public, but quid pro quo deals with political donors.What's worse is this shameless distortion of democracy...
Doubts over donations reform date
Judy Augustine | Mercury | 3 February 2022PREMIER Peter Gutwein has been unable to confirm whether Tasmania's electoral donation reforms will be in place by the start of the next financial year, promising a Bill will be introduced to parliament in the first half of...
Sights set on weaker limit
Adam Holmes| Examiner| 3 February 2022 PREMIER Peter Gutwein says the government will stick with its proposed $5000 threshold for when political donations are publicly disclosed, despite it only bringing Tasmania to the back of the pack for transparency.The...
Proposed donations reform still the worst in Australia
Mel Bush | ABC Mornings | 2 February 2022 Read Meg’s Submission to the Electoral Disclosure and Funding Bill 2021 Exposure Draft See more of Meg's recent media.
Source of income for Tasmanian political parties still largely unknown as 2020-21 disclosures released
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 2 February 2022 Tasmanians have gone another 12 months without knowing how its major political parties receive the vast majority of their income after public disclosures for 2020-21 were released on Tuesday.Tasmania is the only state or...
How much political parties received in the 2020-21 financial year
Judy Augustine | Mercury Newspaper | 2 February 2022 Tasmania’s rules around political donations are once again under scrutiny after the amount received by Tasmania’s major parties was revealed by the Australian Electoral Commission on Tuesday.Currently parties are...
Political donations again kept secret by Tasmania’s Liberal, Labor, Greens parties
Adam Langenberg | ABC Online | 2 February 2022 The latest "disclosure" of Tasmania's political party donations was actually anything but.People looking for clarity about where the island's political parties get their funding from would have been sorely disappointed,...
Media Release – Political Donations
Media Release | 1 February 2022 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called for an urgent status update on the promised State-based political donations disclosure regime.“Today the Australian Electoral Commission’s Annual Disclosures Returns for 2020-21...
Brewery boss hopeful for some last minute changes
Chris Michaels | Examiner | 11 January 2022 Boags Brewery manager Nathan Calman has not given up hope of some last-minute amendments to the Container Refund Scheme Bill which is set to be heard in March when Parliament resumes.Mr Calman said the scheme put forward by...
Independent MLCs disappointed at pokies outcome after 44 hours of debate in Legislative Council
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 26 November 2021 After 44 hours of debate that only lead to an inevitable pre-determined outcome from the major parties, independent upper house MLCs have a sense of pride with their work, but were ultimately disappointment at the new 20-year...
MLC ‘ashamed’ of process
Adam Holmes | Examiner | 25 November 2021 Independent upper house members have slammed the Liberal and Labor parties over their refusal to consider $1 maximum bets and slower spin speeds for poker machines, with one member saying she is "ashamed". The government's...
Pokies reforms not in our best interest
Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 25 November 2021 See more of Meg's recent media.See more on Pokies Reform
Libs hit the jackpot on pokies; Rivals slam new gambling laws
David Killick | Mercury | 25 November 2021 THE state government's controversial gambling reforms have passed the Upper House.After days of debate, the legislation passed by a vote of 8-5 shortly after noon on Wednesday.Independents Meg Webb, Ruth Forrest, Mike...
Media Release – Future Gaming Markets
Media Release | 24 November 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today that while the passage of the industry-written, Future Gaming Markets Bill was disappointing, some amendments had been secured.“I want to pay tribute to the diligent work of some of...
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...
