Mel Bush | ABC Mornings | 15 May 2023
Elections
Voters Deserve Transparency
Kingborough Chronicle | 13 September 2022Voters deserve to know if Local Government candidates are members of a political party, regardless of whether the candidate has the endorsement or backing of the political party, says State Independent Member for Nelson, Meg...
Question – Electoral Act Review
Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 2 June 2022 and answered by the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on 21 June 2022With regard to the Final Report of the Electoral Act Review, released in February 2021, can the government please:Confirm the modelling...
Media Release – How will May Legislative Council Elections Provide for Voters Isolating due to Covid?
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb has called on the Rockliff Liberal Government to ensure voters will not risk disenfranchisement due to Covid-19 in the upcoming Upper House elections.“On May 7, the three Legislative Council seats of Elwick, Huon and McIntyre...
Address-in-Reply: Premier’s State of the State Address 2022
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I welcome this opportunity to respond to the Premier's annual state of the state address and thank other members for the contributions they have made, all of which have been really valuable and very interesting to listen to.At the...
Gutwein promised the Tasmanian Liberals would disclose all donations over $5000. They didn’t.
Bob Burton | Tasmanian Inquirer| 8 February 2022 Almost $80,000 in donations above threshold hidden from voters before May 2021 Tasmanian election.The Tasmanian Liberal party did not disclose at least $79,600 in donations received before last year’s state election...
Doubts over donations reform date
Judy Augustine | Mercury | 3 February 2022PREMIER Peter Gutwein has been unable to confirm whether Tasmania's electoral donation reforms will be in place by the start of the next financial year, promising a Bill will be introduced to parliament in the first half of...
Call to ban entities from making political donations
Adam Holmes | Examiner and Advocate newspapers | 5 October 2021 Nelson independent MLC Meg Webb wants property developers and gaming, liquor, tobacco and firearms entities banned from donating to political parties.An independent upper house MP wants Tasmania to have...
Appeal for donation bans
Kenji Sato| Mercury Newspaper | 5 October 2021 THE government’s crackdown on dodgy donations to political parties doesn’t go anywhere near far enough, according to independent MP Meg Webb.Ms Webb’s comments come in response to the draft Electoral Disclosure and...
Political donations from the gaming industry should be banned
WIN News | 4 October 2021 A ban on specific sectors making political donations is crucial to limit actual and perceived undue influence on the integrity of democratic elections and governance. View Meg’s submission to the Electoral Disclosure and Funding Bill...
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
PETITION
