MEDIA
Inquiry sought into elections
Kingborough Chronicle | June 29, 2021 Independent Member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Meg Webb, is seeking to establish a Joint Select Committee to inquire into Tasmania’s 2021 House of Assembly and Legislative Council elections.The Kingborough based...
Media Release – Joint Select Committee Debate
Media Release | June 29, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the motion for a Joint Select Committee into the 2021 State Elections will be debated today, Tuesday, June 29, in the Legislative Council. Ms Webb said in most Australian industries,...
Inquiry into Tasmanian elections the only way to clear the air
Talking Point | Mercury| June 29, 2021 I accept the results, but genuine concerns from across the political spectrum must be put to rest.IN most industries, to regularly review your processes is standard practice — that’s the way you identify issues and...
Opinion – Election reviews should be a routine priority
Opinion | Examiner | June 27, 2021 In most industries, to regularly review your processes is standard practice - that’s the way you identify issues and opportunities, learn lessons and drive improvement.Politics should be no different. Tasmanians deserve no less...
How nipaluna Hobart shaped the people who shape the city
Ryk Godddard | ABC Breakfast | June 28, 2021 MLC Meg Webb grew up on 3 acres at Otago Bay. This landscape shaped her more than the many share houses she enjoyed in her 20's. But her love of Hobart is as much to do with diversity and choice as a sense of home.
Push for Poll Probe
Rob Inglis | Mercury | June 24, 2021 INDEPENDENT Nelson MLC Meg Webb is attempting to set up a parliamentary inquiry into the 2021 state election – a move she says would provide answers to “swirling” questions around the May 1 poll. Ms Webb tabled a motion in the...
Push for inquiry into circumstances around the 2021 Tasmanian state election
Matt Maloney | Examiner | June 24, 2021 The Legislative Council is set to debate a motion for an inquiry to be held on the recent state election to namely examine the rationale for an early election and the impact of having lower house and upper house elections run...
Media Release – Joint Select Committee into the 2021 state and Legislative Council elections
Media Release | June 23, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb last night tabled a Notice of Motion to establish a Joint Select Committee into the 2021 House of Assembly and Legislative Council Elections.Ms Webb said elections are a fundamental right of the...
ABC News – Focus on Kingston
ABC News | May 31, 2021 Kingston is booming and not just the population, the economy is thriving too. The area has managed to attract a diverse range of businesses but as Lucy Shannon reports, it's feared some of the best businesses could be lost due to a lack of...
Media Release – Labor Leadership Pokies Position
Media Release | May 27, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Labor leadership candidates – David O’Byrne and Shane Broad – to declare their position on pokies.“Both leadership candidates need to come clean to Labor Members ahead of the...
Call for probe into allegations against Liberal candidate
Alexandra Humphries | ABC News | May 15, 2021 There are growing calls for an investigation into the Liberal Party's and Premier Peter Gutwein's handling of allegations surrounding Braddon candidate Adam Brooks, with the Tasmanian Greens confirming they would refer...
‘A bit of a slap’ from the Tasmanian people if Liberal Party ‘just holds its ground’
Andrea Crothers | Sky News | May 1, 2021 Tasmanian Independent MP Megan Webb says if the Liberal Party "just holds its ground, or goes back a little bit", that's the Tasmanian people giving the government "a bit of a slap". "A government that - for politically...
Labor concedes defeat in Tassie election
Matt Coughlan & Ethan James | The Young Witness | May 1, 2021 The Liberal Party has won a historic third term in Tasmania with ongoing vote counting still to determine if they will govern in majority. With more than half of the votes counted, the Liberals are...
Liberals not rewarded for early election
2021 Tasmanian State Election | ABC News | May 1, 2021 Meg Webb speaks with Leon Compton in the Tally Room.
Poker machine spin rates and bet limit changes off the table for Liberals and Labor in gambling reform
Adam Holmes | Examiner | April 28, 2021 Neither the Liberals nor Labor would commit to slowing down spin rates or reducing maximum bets for poker machines as part of harm minimisation measures when gambling reform legislation comes before parliament later this...
Do elections bring out the worst in politics?
Comment | Kingborough Chronicle | April 27, 2021 Do elections bring out the worst in politics? It’s such a shame that at the time we are asked to choose our political representatives, they often provide us with a poor impression of their values and fitness for...
Pokies losses hit $180 million since Gutwein became Tasmanian Premier
Bob Burton | Tasmanian Inquirer & Guardian | April 26, 2021 Almost $500 million lost since the last state election More than $180 million has been lost on Tasmanian poker machines since Peter Gutwein became Premier in January 2020, according to data from the...
Clouds over election’s secret deals
Kingborough Chronicle | April 20, 2021 Tasmania is not having a free and fair state election, according to an associate professor of public policy at the University of Tasmania and a director of the Tasmanian Election Inquiry group, reported in the Tasmanian Inquirer...
Smokescreen of COVID – can Tasmania’s early election obscure the crisis in housing and health?
Adam Morton| Advocate Newspaper | April 1, 2021 Peter Gutwein, whose decisive approach to the pandemic helped soften his public image, aims to capitalise on the pro-incumbent mood, observers say. The afternoon before the Tasmanian premier, Peter Gutwein, announced...
Tasmanian Premier rebuffs calls to move election date
Matt Maloney| Advocate Newspaper | April 1, 2021 Premier Peter Gutwein has resisted a call from independent members in the Legislative Council to move the upper house election scheduled for May 1 - the same day as the House of Assembly election.Six independent MLCs...
Premier declines plea to change Legislative Council poll date
Helen Kempton| Mercury Newspaper | April 1, 2021 A call for the Legislative Council’s polling day to be moved from the same day as the Lower House election has been “politely declined”. TASMANIA’S Premier has “politely declined” a call from six independent MLCs to...
MLCs call for LC elections date change
Joint Independent MLC Media Release | April 1, 2021 Six Independent Members of the Legislative Council have written to the Premier yesterday to express our significant concern at his decision to set the House of Assembly election on the same date as the scheduled...
Labor’s pokies gamble – Hospitality deal under fire
David Killick| Mercury Newspaper | April 1, 2021 LABOR signed a secret deal with the Tasmanian Hospitality Association in February pledging its support for poker machines, Keno and other forms of gambling to continue in pubs and clubs.Opponents accused the party of...
Pokies deal puts profit before people
Alex Johnson | WIN News | March 31, 2021 The pokies MOU puts profit before the Tasmanian people. Meg Webb speaks on WIN News.
MOU proves poker machines are an election issue.
Lucy Breaden | ABC Drive | March 31, 2021 Meg Webb MLC speaks with Lucy Breaden on Labor's secret pokies MOU with the Tasmanian Hospitality Association. See more of Meg's media release on gaming industry donations
Secret gambling industry MOU is an election issue
Meg Sydes| 7 News | March 31, 2021 Labor secret signing of gambling MOU is unacceptable. Meg Webb questions what other secret deals have been made by political parties.
Tasmanian Labor pledges to ‘support the rights’ of pubs and clubs to operate pokies, three years after pushing ban
Emily Baker | ABC News | March 31, 2021 Tasmanian Labor has signed a deal with the state's hospitality lobby stating the party "supports the rights" of pubs and clubs to operate poker machines — just three years after vowing to have them banned.Key points:Labor...
Pokies back on agenda
Mercury Newspaper | March 30, 2021 PREMIER Peter Gutwein needs to release the tax rate for casino pokies during the election campaign, say independent member for Nelson Meg Webb and the Greens.Ms Webb, an anti-pokie campaigner, said if the government was still in...
Tax rate of poker machine takings works its way into 2021 Tasmanian state election campaign
Matt Maloney | Advocate Newspaper | March 29, 2021 Premier Peter Gutwein will not reveal whether the government has set a tax rate for poker machines in Tasmanian casinos ahead of legislation being released after the election.Federal Group are charged 35 per cent tax...
Casino pokies tax rate is a campaign issue
Imogen Elliot | WIN News | March 29, 2021 “Either Premier Gutwein knows what this tax rate will be and is refusing to release it to avoid criticism during the election campaign or the government and Federal Group are still in secret negotiations on it,” Read Meg’s...
