Matt Maloney | The Examiner | 30 May 2021The government will suspend debate over the 2022-23 state budget this week to debate legislation to introduce compulsory voting in local government elections.Local Government Minister Nic Street last week tabled a bill in...
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Rockliff Liberal Government to consider additional parliamentary sitting days after State Budget scrutiny to then debate proposed local government election reforms.“It is established practice for the State...
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...
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I will find my way back to where I needed to start here. Thank you, member for Murchison for that contribution which was quite comprehensive around the issue, unlike the second reading speech, unlike the absence of any evidence base...
Kingborough Chronicle | 5 April 2022In case anyone missed it, the Tasmanian Government has proposed changes to the State’s protest laws. The Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022 focuses on amending the existing Police Offences Act and is...
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - To follow up on some matters I raised in our earlier briefings on the bill, it would be good to get on the record here as we discuss it. Before doing that, I would reinforce what the member for Elwick said, that I do not see this so much as a...
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I appreciate very much the contributions of other members on the bill. I found it really interesting to be listening to those and to have that added on to the consideration we gave yesterday to the proposal for an inquiry on this bill....
