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Article-Nelson gears up to vote in the Legislative Council election

Article-Nelson gears up to vote in the Legislative Council election

Kingborough Chronicle | 6 May 2025: pg 7.Nelson gears up to vote in the Legislative Council electionWhilst the federal election may be out of the way, more than 78,000 Tasmanians will have to prepare themselves for the Legislative Council election on Saturday, May...

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-Blackmans Bay garden success in Parliament

Article-Blackmans Bay garden success in Parliament

Kingborough Chronicle | 15 April 2025: pg 8.Blackmans Bay garden success in ParliamentIndependent member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC took the Blackmans Bay Community Association's (BBCA) Edible garden Trail to a recent Legislative Council meeting.“I and my family had such...

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...

Talking Point-Lessons We All Must Learn from UTAS

Talking Point-Lessons We All Must Learn from UTAS

Talking Point | The Mercury | 1 April 2025; pg 25Lessons We All Must Learn from UTASIt Is Essential for Development the University Successfully Delivers, writes Meg Webb MLCThe University of Tasmania is a beloved Tasmanian public institution and is of primary...

Article-Kingston Red Bench Starts the Conversation

Article-Kingston Red Bench Starts the Conversation

Kingborough Chronicle | 18 March 2025: pgs 1 & 6.Kingston Red Bench Starts the ConversationKingston Neighbourhood House (KNH) has launched the Red Bench, the first of its kind in southern Tasmania.The Red Bench is an initiative from Red Rose Foundation, a national...

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...

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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