Justice
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
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
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
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
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
Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 5 May 2022 and answered by the Attorney General on 24 May 2022Â Â 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...
Submission to the Review of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI)
Government urged to raise the age of criminal responsibility
Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 25 October 2021  Motion urges the Tasmanian Government to raise the age of criminal responsibility. Read Meg’s Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility Motion See more of Meg’s recent media.
Media Release – Age of Criminal Responsibility
Media Release | 25 October 2021  Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Tasmanian Government and Tasmanian Parliament to take urgent action to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14.“When we criminalise a child, we fail as a...
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
