Article | The Mercury | 23 August 2023; pg 6Report 'won't be watered down'There will be no change to the government’s planned approach to the Commission of Inquiry final report, despite calls for it to ruleout redactions in the document.Legislative Council independent...
Article-Government Shouldn’t be Involved in Redacting Commission of Inquiry Report
Article | The Mercury | 22 August 2023; pg 5Webb: Don't Cut Final ReportDavid KillickThe government should recuse itself from making any redactions from the Commission of Inquiry’s final report, an independent MLCsays.Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian...
Motion Debate – Commissioner for Children and Young People’s Report: Out-of-Home Care System
Meg debated her motion drawing attention to the recent Tasmanian Commissioner for Children and Young People's Monitoring Report No. 2: Key Data on Tasmania's Out-of-Home Care System 2020-22, on Tuesday, 15 August 2023. Text of Meg's Motion as tabled and...
Question – Where is Conversion Practices Ban Legislation?
Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC, and answered by the the Hon. Jeremy Rockliff MP, Premier and the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing on 29 June 2023. [pdf-embedder...
Question – Closure of the St Helen’s Private Hospital and Mother and Baby Unit
Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 15 May 2023 and answered by the the Hon. Jeremy Rockliff MP, Premier and the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing on 27 June 2023. In regards to the closure to St Helens Private Hospital and the announcement of three...
Question – Surgery on Intersex Children
Questions asked by the Hon. Meg Webb MLC on 16 March 2023 and answered by the Premier and Minister for Health on 30 March 2023. In correspondence to Mr Sam Klintworth, National Director, Amnesty International Australia, dated 1 December 2021, the then-Deputy Premier...
Tasmania in a unique position to save lives through youth justice reform
Emily Baker | ABC News | 31 October 2021 Read or watch Meg’s Raising the Age Motion speech here See more of Meg’s recent media.
Tasmania’s Legislative Council agrees kids are not criminally responsible until age 14
Isabel Bird | Examiner | 28 October 2021 Kids as young as 10 can be sent to Ashley Youth Detention Centre. A motion calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 14 has passed in the Tasmanian Legislative Council.The minimum age of...
Motion – Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility
Opening Speech to Parliament Mr President, I begin my contribution today by acknowledging the palawa/pakana of lutrawita/Tasmania, the Tasmanian Aboriginal...
Government urged to raise the age of criminal responsibility
Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 25 October 2021 Motion urges the Tasmanian Government to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Read Meg’s Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility Motion See more of Meg’s recent media.