View Meg delivering her second reading speech below supporting the Family Violence Amendment (Protecting People and their Pets) Bill 2024, Tuesday 26 November 2024. Read below or download Meg's speech as a pdf here: [pdf-embedder...
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Media Release: Upper House Votes to Progress Tasmanian Human Rights Act
Upper House Votes to Progress Tasmanian Human Rights ActThe Legislative Council today voted to support the immediate development of Tasmanian Human Rights legislation to be tabled during the life of the current Parliament.“I welcome the majority support of Upper House...
Speech- Taroona Scouts 70th Anniversary Celebration
Meg Webb MLC delivered a speech celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Taroona Scouts Group as a Special Interest Matter in the Legislative Council, attended by a delegation from the Taroona Scouts, on Tuesday 26th of November 2024. View the video of Meg delivering...
Article-Kingston favoured for AFL facility
Kingborough Chronicle | 26 November 2024; pg 1,2.Kingston favoured for AFL facilityKingston's Twin Ovals has officially been chosen as the site for the AFL High Performance Centre (HPC) and Training Facility.Rosny Parklands was nominated the preferred site for the HPC...
Media Release: Government Must Stop Ghosting the Independent TNPM
Government Must Stop Ghosting the Independent TNPMIndependent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the State Government must heed the urgent calls by the independent Tasmanian National Preventive Mechanism (TNPM), Mr Richard Connock, and immediately fund the Office...
Speech – Sentencing Amendment (Presumption of Mandatory Sentencing) Bill 2024
View Meg below delivering her second reading speech on 21 November 2024 to the government's Sentencing Amendment (Presumption of Mandatory Sentencing) Bill 2024 - during which she detailed her concerns with the Bill, and the reasons why she will be voting against the...
ABC Radio National Interview – Tasmanian government walks away from pokie card reform
Meg Webb MLC speaks on ABC Radio National Breakfast with Steve Cannane on Wednesday, 20 November 2024, in light of the shock backflip by the Tasmanian State Liberal Government on its promised mandatory pokies pre-commitment card.
Motion Debated – Call to Deliver Tas NPM Implementation Report Recommendations Passed by Upper House
The Hon. Meg Webb MLC tabled the following motion in the Legislative Council on Tuesday 12 December 2023, noting the Tasmanian National Preventive Mechanism's (TNPM) inaugural Implementation Report, and calling for each of its eight recommendations be implemented in...
Article-Outgoing Liberal Party director defends pork-barrelling
The Examiner | 7 November 2024; pg 12.Outgoing Liberal Party director defends pork-barrellingMatt Maloney LIBERAL Party state director Peter Coulson has spoken strongly in favour of the practice of pork-barrelling during election campaigns, despite long-held...
ABC Digital News-Tasmanian MPs under pressure from gambling lobby over harm minimisation plan, Michael Ferguson claims
Adam Langenberg | ABC NEWS - Digital Online | 1 November 2024 Tasmanian MPs under pressure from gambling lobby over harm minimisation plan, Michael Ferguson claimsIn short:As the state's former finance minister, Michael Ferguson proposed nation-leading reforms that...
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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