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Article-MP calls for Emergency Cash for Disability Services

Article-MP calls for Emergency Cash for Disability Services

The Mercury | 4 July 2024; pg 8.MP calls for emergency cash for servicesStephanie DaltonAs disability advocacy organisations Autism Tasmania and Disability Voices Tasmania faced the abrupt cessation of federal funding last week, Independent MP Meg Webb is calling on...

Article-No Bet Limits on Poker Machines

Article-No Bet Limits on Poker Machines

The Examiner | 4 July 2024; pg 4.No Limits; Gaming policy delayMatt MaloneyThe state government will not impose bet limits on poker machines or reduce spin speeds as additional harm reduction measures amid a delay in the rollout of a mandatory pre-commitment gaming...

Article-Local Landcare makes Parliament

Article-Local Landcare makes Parliament

Kingborough Chronicle | 25 June 2024; pg 8. Local Landcare makes ParliamentKingston Beach Coastcare and South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation (SETAC) in partnership with Kingborough Council received Tasmanian Landcare Awards last month, but were formally...

Article-$75M for ex-Ashley detainees

Article-$75M for ex-Ashley detainees

The Mercury | 22 June 2024; pg 1;7. $75M for ex-Ashley detainees Settlement compo for abuse, trauma David Killlick The state government has agreed to pay $75m to settle a class action brought by former detainees at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Lawyers acting for...

Speech on Adjournment  – Vale Dr Bruce Felmingham

Speech on Adjournment – Vale Dr Bruce Felmingham

Thursday the 20th of June, Meg Webb MLC raised on the Adjournment the passing of Dr Bruce Felmingham. Ms WEBB (Nelson) - I rise on adjournment to pay my respects to the former Dr Bruce Stanley Felmingham, who passed away on 12 June. Dr Felmingham was a Tasmanian...

Speech – Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor Bill 2024

Speech – Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor Bill 2024

 View Meg delivering her second reading speech on Wed 19 June 2024 to the government's Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor Bill 2024 - during which she provides her contribution on the bill, and why she is happy to support it. The video is in two parts.    ...

Article-Emergency task force 1013 days after closure vow

Article-Emergency task force 1013 days after closure vow

The Mercury | 19 June 2024; pg 6. Emergency task force 1013 days after closure Genevieve Holding The Tasmanian Legislative Council has voted in support of a motion to establish an emergency task force to remove children from Ashley Youth Detention Centre, 1013 days...

While pokies were closed
due to COVID-19
Tasmanians saved

Poker machines were closed in Tasmania on March 23, 2020
and reopened on June 26, 2020.
In 2018-19 Tasmanians lost $171,603,745 to poker machines

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