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Question – Tasmania Police Surveillance

Question – Tasmania Police Surveillance

Questions asked by the Hon. Meg Webb MLC on 29 September 2022 and answered by the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management on 29 September 2022In regards to the warrant issued and surveillance operation conducted by Tasmania Police in Risdon Prison from June...

Media Release – Independent Inquiry Into Police Surveillance

Media Release – Independent Inquiry Into Police Surveillance

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb has repeated her call for a truly independent Inquiry to be established into electronic surveillance by Tasmania Police.“This is a matter of urgency to ensure ongoing trust and confidence in the Tasmania Police and the...

Question – Tasmania Police Surveillance

Media Release – Risdon Privacy Breach

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Government to refer the Risdon Privacy Breach matter to the Integrity Commissioner.Ms Webb said Tasmania Police’s appointment of former Solicitor General Michael Farrell to investigate the matter was...

Question – Issuing of COVID Infringements

Question – Issuing of COVID Infringements

Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 22 Aug 2022 and answered by the Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency on 23 Aug 2022Question 1: Under the auspices of the Tasmanian State of Emergency declaration from 19 March 2020 to 26 October 2020 inclusive,    a) How...

Concerns held for future of the state’s law reform institute

Concerns held for future of the state’s law reform institute

Matt Maloney | The Examiner | 23 July 2022The state's legal fraternity says the government needs to step up its funding commitment to the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute to ensure its survival.A review of the institute, which was established in 2001 as the state's...

Speech-in-Reply: Tasmania State Budget 2022

Speech-in-Reply: Tasmania State Budget 2022

Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I rise to provide my response to the state Budget 2022-23.  A lot has certainly changed since we last stood here responding to the previous state budget which was barely nine months ago, as it was slightly delayed again last year.We...

Youth Justice Amendment (Searches in Custody) Bill 2022

Youth Justice Amendment (Searches in Custody) Bill 2022

Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Thank you, Mr President.  I am very pleased to rise to speak on this bill and thank you to the Government for bringing it forward and for the briefings provided.We are looking at this bill in the context of a youth justice system which has utterly...

Question – Review of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute

Question – Review of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute

Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 5 May 2022 and answered by the Attorney General on 24 May 2022  With regard to the ongoing involvement of the Tasmanian government in the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) as one of the three founding parties, and...

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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