MEDIA
Sure Bet – Liberal Party donor informed of proposed tax rate cut months before Tasmanian election campaign
Matt Maloney | Examiner & Advocate Newspaper | 19 August 2021Liberal party donor Federal Group was informed months before this year’s election campaign that the tax rate applied to poker machines in casinos would be cut by more than half in 2023. Right to...
Casino deal kept secret
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 19 August 2021 Tax rate a ‘gift to party donor’THE state government secretly negotiated “acceptable” casino tax rates with Federal Group last year but kept the details quiet until after the election, documents released under right...
Tas Govt plan to slash tax rates known before election
Alexandra Humphries | ABC News | 18 August 2021 Crucial information withheld from the state’s major stakeholders - the Tasmanian people - during the election campaign. Meg Webb on ABC News Hobart. Read Meg’s Media Release hereSee the RTI...
Tax rates for Casinos deliberately withheld
Win News | 18 August 2021
Tas Govt denies misleading votes on poker machine policy
7 News Hobart| 18 August 2021 Tasmanian government denies misleading voters even though RTI documents show pokies tax rate decided before State election.Read Meg’s Media Release hereSee the RTI decision hereFor more on Meg's pokies page
Premier hid casino tax rates RTI shows
Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | 18 August 2021RTI documents which show Premier Peter Gutwein cut the new deal for the Federal Group casino pokies tax rate months before the 2021 State Election. Meg Webb with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings. Read Meg's Media Release...
Casino tax rate deal exposed
Media release | 18 August 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today released RTI documents which show Premier Peter Gutwein cut the new deal for the Federal Group casino pokies tax rate months before the 2021 State Election.“I call on the Premier to come...
Reducing pokies maximum bets has overwhelming support in Tas
Adam Holmes | Examiner Newspaper | 16 August 2021 The EMRS poll included 1000 respondents from August 7-9, with questions funded by Meg Webb MLC, former Liberal deputy premier Sir Max Bingham and HACSU state secretary Tim Jacobson.Tasmanians overwhelmingly support...
Pokies tax plan not popular with voters
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 16 August 2021 THE overwhelming majority of Tasmanians believe poker machines should be taxed at the same rate regardless of whether they are in pubs, clubs or casinos, new polling shows.Pollster EMRS surveyed 1000 Tasmanians...
Tasmanians support more Pokies harm minimisation
7 News Tasmania | 15 August 2021 An ERMS poll shows Tasmanians overwhelmingly support lowering the maximum bet limit on poker machines from $5 to $1, having harm minimisation included in gaming reform, and taxing hotels and casino pokies at the same rate. Read the...
Media Release – Tasmanians back safer pokies reform
Media release | August 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb invites the Tasmanian media to the release of the EMRS Omnibus Poll Results into Poker Machines. “This polling shows that four in five Liberal voters and four in five Labor voters think casino poker...
Bid to cut losses on pokies
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 13 August 2021 MEMBERS of casino premium pokies programs will be required to put annual limits on their losses under a new scheme unveiled by the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission. It is the first time in Australia that...
Tasmania to introduce mandatory limits for pokies players
Alexandra Humphries | ABC News Online | 14 August 2021 — but experts see too many loopholes Eleven years ago, Robert Kreshl was living on the streets of Hobart, sick with pneumonia and pleurisy, $17,000 in debt and addicted to poker machines."It was pretty rough, I...
Gamblers must set a limit
Isabel Bird | Examiner Newspaper | 12 August 2021 A pokie machine membership program, complete with benefits, will have a mandatory betting limit within its rules that is being touted as a harm minimisation measure by the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission.The...
Tasmanian tax payers could lose millions
7 News | August 10, 2021 Economic modelling, funded by former Tasmanian Liberal Deputy-Premier and Attorney-General Sir Max Bingham, shows Tasmanian taxpayers missing out on at least $367 million to the poker machine industry. “Tasmanian taxpayers will miss out on...
Tasmania’s casinos to save millions on taxes under new proposed gaming laws
Matt Maloney | Examiner & Advocate Newspapers | 9 August 2021A former Tasmanian Attorney-General and serving parliamentarian have presented economic modelling which suggests proposed gaming legislation would result in a $367 million loss for taxpayers to the poker...
Sir Max Bingham – Anti-Pokies Support
Media Release| 9 August 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb’s submission on the Future Gaming Markets legislation includes independent economic modelling showing Tasmanian taxpayers missing out on at least $367 million to the poker machine industry.The...
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...
