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Article-Budget cuts threaten women’s safety: MLC

Article-Budget cuts threaten women’s safety: MLC

Hobart Mercury | 20 April 2026; pg 2. Budget cuts threaten women's safety: MLC Elise Kaine Wrong decisions in the upcoming state budget could lead to worsening outcomes for women, an independent MLC warned as demonstrators gathered at a rally against gendered violence...

Article-Precinct for STEM closer to reality as Bill passes Third Vote

Article-Precinct for STEM closer to reality as Bill passes Third Vote

The Mercury | 17 April 2026; pg 5.Precinct for STEM closer to reality:Bill passed at third readingElise KaineThe University of Tasmania has welcomed the passage of a new Bill designed to secure funding for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

Speech – Residential Parks Bill 2026

Speech – Residential Parks Bill 2026

Meg Webb MLC delivered her Second Reading contribution on Thursday 16 April 2026 on the Residential Parks Bill 2026, outlining her initial views on the Bill.Or read Meg's contribution in the Hansard PDF document below.  Read below or download Meg's speech as a pdf...

Media Release: Flawed UTAS Bill Passes

Media Release: Flawed UTAS Bill Passes

UTAS (Protection of Land) Bill Entrenches Government’s Broken Promise to Protect Sandy Bay campus16 April 2026Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the Legislative Council passing the University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2025 has resulted in...

Article-Government stalls on child abuse failures

Article-Government stalls on child abuse failures

 The Mercury | 16 April 2026; pg 4.Government stalls on child abuseElise KaineThe government has not shown meaningful cultural and behavioural change in the wake of an inquiry into child sex abuse in state settings, according to a parliamentary report tabled this...

ABC Digital News-University of Tasmania will now be able to sell off land from its Sandy Bay campus

Speech – University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2025

This page is in 2 parts: Meg Webb MLC delivery of her Second Reading speech on the University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2025 on Thursday 26 March 2026. Meg Webb MLC moving amendments to the Bill in Committee when debate resumed on the Bill on Wednesday 15...

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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