MEDIA
Media Release – Call for independent review of Parliament workplace culture
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called for an independent review into the Tasmanian Parliamentary workplace.
A return to pre-COVID normal isn’t enough
Opinion | Kingborough Chronicle | February 16, 2021 As we start this new year of 2021, many of us have a sense that life has mostly returned to normal.The kids have returned to school, our borders are mostly open to the rest of the country, there’s plenty of toilet...
Tasmanian gambling reform a sticking point between profit and purpose
Brinley Duggan | Examiner Newspaper | February 6, 2021 The future of gaming in Tasmania has sent stakeholders into a spin.The state government's future gaming policy was released for comment in February last year.The policy proposed limiting the number of pokies in...
Fresh spin on pokies
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | February 3, 2021 Resumption of reform process draws renewed flakCHANGES to Tasmania’s controversial gaming machine regulations are back on the agenda.Key elements of the reform process include allowing pubs and clubs to own and...
Media Release – Future Gaming Markets
Media Release | February 2, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Gutwein Liberal Government to respond to the multitude of unanswered questions raised in submissions to its own Future Gaming Market (FGM) legislation.“The Gutwein...
Gaming Overhaul
Alexandra Humphreys | ABC News | February 2, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC says the Gutwein Liberal Government must respond to the multitude of unanswered questions raised in relation to its Future Gaming Market (FGM) legislation.Read more on Meg's...
Poker Machine Reforms Must Protect Tasmanians
Lucy Breaden | ABC Drive | January 29, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson, Meg Webb speaks with Lucy Breaden about the future of gaming in Tasmania and options for minimising harm on Poker Machines.More information on Pokies
Tim Costello urges Tasmanian Government to consider better consumer protections for poker machine use
Mat Maloney | Advocate | January 29, 2021 The government is being urged to embed more effective consumer protections into its future gaming reforms legislation.Alliance for Gambling Reform chief advocate Tim Costello on Friday said Tasmania could lead the nation...
Media Release – Consumer Protection – Tasmania Can Lead The Nation
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb and Chief Advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform Tim Costello invite the Tasmanian media to discuss Tasmania’s new licensing model for poker machines at Parliament House at 1.30pm, Friday, January 29.Mr Costello said...
Talking Point – Investing in a Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Tasmania
Talking Point | Mercury Newspaper | December 28, 2020 When the world faced the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, Rahm Emanuel stated “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste”. The Barack Obama chief of staff and later Chicago mayor urged public and private...
Aurora Energy’s chairwoman Mary O’Kane holds fears for company’s financial position in 2021
Matt Maloney | Examiner Newspaper | December 14, 2020 Aurora Energy will face further financial headwinds next year, its chairwoman says.Mary O'Kane told a government business scrutiny committee on Monday the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic was yet to be...
Media Release – Scottsdale losing $100,000+ a month to Pokies
Meg Webb | Media Release | December 1, 2020 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the latest figures showed that the North-East town of Scottsdale is losing more than $100,000 a month to poker machines. “There are three venues with pokies in the Dorset...
Tasmanian Government urged to apply gender impact statements to future budgets
Matt Maloney | Advocate Newspaper | November 26, 2020 Womens' Minister Sarah Courtney says she will look at the resourcing required for a gender impact statement to be applied to future state budgets.Nelson independent MLC Meg Webb last week made the suggestion in...
To-be-formed child sex abuse commission to be given ‘all the powers’ it needs
David Killick & Helen Kempton | Mercury Newspaper | November 24, 2020 The Commission of Inquiry into child abuse in Tasmanians government agencies will be given all the powers it needs to do its job, Premier Peter Gutwein said in the estimates.THE Commission of...
Tasmanian parliamentarian calls for gender impact statements to be applied to future state budgets
Matt Maloney | Advocate Newspaper | November 21, 2020Future state budgets need to contain a gender impact statement, independent upper house member Meg Webb says.Ms Webb said in a speech before the Legislative Council on Thursday that the 2020-21 state budget was...
Wait goes on for vote on voluntary assisted dying in upper house
Rob Inglis | Advocate & Examiner Newspapers | October 30, 2020 A final vote on a bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying in Tasmania won't take place for another two weeks, with the upper house resolving to further consider the amendments that have been made to...
Private contact tracing information used for promotional purposes
Isabel Bird | Examiner & Advocate Newspaper | October 29, 2020 Independent MP says private contact tracing information used for promotional purpose by hospitality businessThe collection of personal data by private businesses for coronavirus contact tracing is...
Businesses’ collection of information for coronavirus contact tracing raises privacy concerns for customers
Ellen Coulter | ABC news Online | October 28, 2020 Questions are being raised over the privacy of coronavirus contact tracing at Tasmanian hospitality venues, amid allegations personal information is being used for promotional purposes. Key points:Customers have...
Privacy Concerns for Patron Contact Information
Ellen Coulter | ABC News | October 28, 2020 Hon Meg Webb MLC, Independent Member for Nelson raises serious concerns about the retention and misuse of contact tracing information as Tasmanian borders reopen on ABC News Hobart.
Personal contact details being misused
Sean McComish | 7 News | October 28, 2020 Meg Webb, Independent Member for Nelson says personal details collected for contact tracing is being misused.
Misuse worry over people’s contact details
James Kitto | Mercury Newspaper | October 28, 2020 QUESTIONS have been asked of the state government about how Tasmanians’ personal information is being protected from businesses gathering COVID contact tracing data.It comes as independent MLC Meg Webb said she was...
Privacy Concerns over Contact Tracing
Aaron Stevens | Tasmania Talks | October 28, 2020 Hon Meg Webb MLC talks with Aaron Stevens on Tasmania Talks about privacy concerns, the lack of guidance given to venues on how they should manage the personal information they collect and the letter she has written...
Media Release – Contact Tracing Information Concerns
Meg Webb | Media Release |October 28, 2020 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb has raised serious concerns about the retention and misuse of contact tracing information as Tasmanian borders reopen. Ms Webb has written to Premier Peter Gutwein seeking...
Who are Tasmania’s political lobbyists?
Emily Baker | ABC News | October 22, 2020 They are the people paid to influence government policies, and they are growing in number in Tasmania — but the amount of power they wield while largely shielded from scrutiny has sparked fears that "the boys are back in...
Pokies harm minimisation and the Social and Economic Impact of Gambling in Tasmania (the SEIS)
Martin Agatyn |7AD | October 22, 2020 Meg Webb MLC talks about the importance of the Tasmanian Social and Economic Impact Study (SEIS) into gambling and the need for better poker machine harm minimisation measures to be introduced in Tasmania. With Martin Agatyn on...
Tasmania’s drivers licence images uploaded to national database
Cameron Whiteley | Mercury Newspaper | October 20, 2020 Civil libertarians ramp up pressure on government over transfer of 430,000 driver’s licence imagesHundreds of thousands of driver’s licence images have been uploaded to a database which hasn’t been legislated –...
Comment – Good rules protect the community
Comment | Kingborough Chronicle | October 20, 2020 When it comes to products that can be harmful or dangerous, we make laws and regulations to ensure that community members are protected and harms or dangers are minimised as much as possible.This approach can be seen...
Media Release – Govt Ignores Calls to Retrieve Tasmanians’ Personal Data
Meg Webb & Richard Griggs | Media Release | October 15, 2020 The State Government is under increasing pressure to recall thousands of Tasmanians’ drivers licence images and data it had secretly transferred to the now stalled Federal Department of Home Affairs...
Help make good rules to minimise harm
Comment | Diverse Tassie | October 2020 When it comes to products that can be harmful or dangerous, we make laws and regulations to ensure that community members are protected and harms or dangers are minimised as much as possible.You can see this approach in the...
Poker machine harm minimisaton opportunities for Tasmania
Lucy Breaden | ABC Radio Drive | October 8, 2020 Meg Webb calls on the Tasmanian Govt to implement evidence-based measures to reduce losses by problem pokers gamblers in light the bold and proactive approach the NSW Govt is taking to minimise pokies harm. Meg also...
