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Article-Tight Fields Lining up for Upper House

Article-Tight Fields Lining up for Upper House

The Saturday Mercury | 3 May 2025; pg 4. Tight Fields Lining up for Upper House David KillickThirteen candidates will vie for three seats in the Legislative Council in this month’s second chance to vote for some Tasmanian electors.More than 78,000 voters in...

Article-Tight Fields Lining up for Upper House

Article-Premier Bypasses Planning: Macquarie Point Christmas Present

The Mercury | 14 April 2025; pg 11. Macquarie Point Christmas Present Rob InglisConstruction of the proposed Macquarie Point stadium could begin before Christmas if the parliament approves the state government’s newly - announced special legislation to fast-track the...

Article-Stadium Motion Falls Flat

Article-Stadium Motion Falls Flat

The Mercury | 10 April 2025; pg 6. Stadium Motion Falls FlatDavid KillickA motion calling on the state government to renegotiate its stadium deal with the AFL has been voted down in the Legislative Council.Member for Nelson Meg Webb moved the motion, calling on the...

Article-Webb’s Push for New Deal With AFL

Article-Webb’s Push for New Deal With AFL

The Mercury | 7 April 2025; pg 6. Webb’s Push for New Deal With AFLA responsible government would negotiate a new deal with the AFL, independent MLC Meg Webb says.Ms Webb is set to table a motion to call for the state government to renegotiate the deal, which requires...

Article-MLCs set to take vote on Macquarie Point stadium

Article-MLCs set to take vote on Macquarie Point stadium

The Advocate | 7 April 2025; pg 3. (and pg 4 of the Examiner newspaper, 7 April 2025) MLCs set to take vote on Macquarie Point stadiumSean FordTASMANIA'S fledgling AFL club faces a new threat. MLCs are set to vote on a motion aimed at asking the state government to...

Article-Tight Fields Lining up for Upper House

Article-MLC Wants Legal Payments Report Released

The Mercury | 18 March 2025; pg 4.MLC Wants Legal Payments Report ReleasedDavid KillickAn independent MLC has called on the government to release a report into whether any public officers who received legal help at the Commission of Inquiry should be required to repay...

Article-Call for UTAS Law Reform & Core Role Shift

Article-Call for UTAS Law Reform & Core Role Shift

The Mercury | 26 December 2024; pg 4.Call for uni law reform amid 'core role shift'David KillickThe laws governing the University of Tasmania need reviewing to address a drift away from its core role as an educational institution, a parliamentary committee has...

Article-UTAS ‘has become too corporatised’

Article-UTAS ‘has become too corporatised’

The Examiner | 24 December 2024; pg 3. UTAS 'has become too corporatised' According to the report's findings, there is evidence of a lack of trust in UTAS ... Benjamin Seeder   A PARLIAMENTARY review of the University of Tasmania has found that the higher...

Article-Local Landcare makes Parliament

Article-Local Landcare makes Parliament

Kingborough Chronicle | 25 June 2024; pg 8. Local Landcare makes ParliamentKingston Beach Coastcare and South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation (SETAC) in partnership with Kingborough Council received Tasmanian Landcare Awards last month, but were formally...

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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