MEDIA
Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to conduct review into government office sexual harassment policies
Isabel Bird | Advocate Newspaper | 28 July 2021 Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner will conduct a review of the bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment policies that exist across all parliament and government offices, and make recommendations to...
We need an inquiry into lost votes
Talking Point| Mercury Newpaper |24 July , 2021 Thousands were unable to cast a ballot. We need answers. THE May 1 elections saw thousands of Tasmanian voters disenfranchised. For perhaps the first time in our state, citizens were deprived of their right to vote,...
Tasmania’s democratic system failure
Alexandra Humphreys|ABC News |22 July , 2021 For the first time ever we may have seen a faillure of our democratic electoral system in Tasmania. See Meg’s Motion calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the 2021 state and Legislative Council...
TEC report shows 4000 voters disenfanchised
WIN News Tasmania |22 July , 2021 Disenfranchised voters are one of the reasons a Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into the administration of the 2021 elections needs to be supported in the lower house. Meg Webb MLC on "WIN News Tasmania. See Meg’s Motion calling for a...
TEC report shows shocking failure of our democratic process
Leon Compton | ABC Statewide Mornings | 22 July 2021 It is hardly surprising 4,000 electors were disenfranchised given the Premier forced unprecedented and untested concurrent state and LC elections on our state. A Tasmanian Electoral Commission report into the...
Election process criticised again after commission findings
Sarah Davison | The Examiner | 22 July 2021 This year's state election forced some Tasmanians to consider their votes for both the Upper and Lower houses.On May 1, more than 50,000 voters in the Legislative Council divisions of Derwent and Windermere needed to vote...
Thousands of voters disenfranchised at state election
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 22 July 2021 Nearly 4000 voters missed out on having their say in a recent election because of staff errors or because ballot papers were not available at the polling place they attended. ALMOST four thousand voters missed out on...
Federal coy on sale of hotels
Rob Inglis |Mercury Newspaper | 13 July 2021 FEDERAL Group isn’t saying whether it intends to sell off any of its 12 pubs, with the state government’s proposed gaming policy set to significantly increase their capital value.The new model for Tasmania’s gaming...
Small pubs and clubs may lose out under new pokies licencing model
Laura Beavis |ABC News | 9 July , 2021 Small pub and club owners may lose out under the proposed Future Gaming legislation.
New gaming legislation must do more to reduce harm in the community
Andrew Chounding |Examiner | 8 July , 2021Critics of the state's proposed gaming legislation say new changes do not address the social impact gambling has on the community, and that more must be done to address the harm caused.The proposed legislation would see an...
Draft gaming reforms cut tax rate on pokies
Catherine Zengerer | ABC Mornings | July 8, 2021 Meg Webb MLC speaks about the Tasmanian Government's draft gaming legislation with Catherine Zengerer on ABC Mornings. Read more on Meg's Pokies page
Tasmanian Government releases long-awaited draft future gaming legislated
Matt Maloney | The Examiner & Advocate | July 8, 2021 Taxation on takings from electronic gaming machines in Tasmania's casinos will drop by 57 per cent if the government's new gaming legislation is approved by Parliament.The government released draft gaming...
Government reveals new gambling tax rates as Federal monopoly ends
David Killick | The Mercury | July 8, 2021 FEDERAL Group will lose around $20 million a year when its gambling monopoly ends under new tax arrangements unveiled by the state government on Wednesday.But the announcement has anti-gambling campaigners adamant that the...
Goverment’s proposed gaming legislation released
Loretta Lohberger | ABC News | July 7, 2021
Gambling legislation offers no new harm minimisation measures
WIN News | July 7, 2021 Meg Webb comments on the Government's proposed gaming legislation on WIN News.
Pokie Policy released
WIN News | July 1, 2021 Meg Webb on the Tasmanian Government's draft pokies legislation.
Election inquiry passes Upper House
Kingborough Chronicle | July 6, 2021 There is a potential win on the way for transparency and accountability in Tasmania, after Independent and Labor Members of Tasmania’s Upper House passed a motion to establish a Joint Select Committee, with broad terms of...
App privacy wait-and-see
Brinley Duggan | Examiner Newspaper | July 5, 2021 Legislating against the use of the Check in Tas app by police could see the community more inclined to make use of it, a Tasmanian tech expert says.Nelson MLC Meg Webb's public privacy concerns were addressed in the...
Protect check-in data call
Sue Bailey | Mercury Newspaper | July 4, 2021 Watch on police powers THERE’S growing concern that the Check In Tas App may be used by police to access data for investigations. The Australian Lawyers Alliance and independent Nelson MLC Meg Webb want a guarantee that...
Gambling comes at a $160 million cost to Tasmania, new report finds
Examiner Newspaper | July 2, 2021 Gambling is estimated to cost the Tasmanian community up to $160 million a year, the latest Social and Economic Impact Study for gaming has found.The report, released on Thursday, found the most significant quantifiable cost of...
Gambling’s $160m hit
Mercury Newspaper | July 2, 2021Report shines spotlight on controversial industryPROBLEM gambling costs the Tasmanian community up to $160m each year, although the true extent of the social and economic damage is impossible to measure, a new report has found.Gambling...
New Tasmanian poker machine data
Leon Compton | ABC Statewide Mornings | July 2, 2021
Meg Webb WIN News latest pokies research
WIN News | July 1, 2021
Newest poker machine research released
Lucy Breaden | ABC Southern Drive | July 1, 2021
Tasmanian poker machine research released
Pia Wirsu | ABC Northern Tasmania Drive | July 1, 2021
Tasmanian Labor leader criticised for threatening legal action over sexual harassment allegations before apology
ABC News Tasmania | July 1, 2021 The Greens and a former Labor MP say it's not tenable for Labor leader David O'Byrne to remain in his role after apologising over allegations he sexually harassed a junior employee more than a decade ago.Speaking in parliament on...
Media Release – SEIS – No Clean Bill of Health
Media Release | July 1, 2021Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the 5th Social & Economic Impact Study (SEIS) on gambling in Tasmania is not a cleanbill of health for the Gutwein Liberal Government.“Gambling expenditure remains high and appears to now be...
Legislative Council votes in favour of JSC
Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | June 30, 2021 Yesterday, all Independent Members, as well as the Labor Members of the Legislative Council. voted in support of a motion to establish a JSC to inquire into the 2021 state and LC elections. Meg Webb shares why a Joint...
Upper house push for election inquiry
Matt Maloney | Examiner Newspaper | June 29, 2021 The Legislative Council has voted in favour of forming a joint select committee to review the administration and conduct of the May lower and upper house elections.But the government is likely to quash the inquiry...
Media Release – Joint Select Committee Supported
Media Release | June 30, 2021Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the Motion to establish a Joint Select Committee, with a broad terms of reference to inquire into the conduct of the 2021 elections, passed the Upper House 8-3 today.“Support for this motion, is...
