Mercury Newspaper | July 2, 2021Report shines spotlight on controversial industryPROBLEM gambling costs the Tasmanian community up to $160m each year, although the true extent of the social and economic damage is impossible to measure, a new report has found.Gambling...
ABC News Tasmania | July 1, 2021 The Greens and a former Labor MP say it's not tenable for Labor leader David O'Byrne to remain in his role after apologising over allegations he sexually harassed a junior employee more than a decade ago.Speaking in parliament on...
Rob Inglis | Advocate & Examiner Newspapers | October 30, 2020 A final vote on a bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying in Tasmania won't take place for another two weeks, with the upper house resolving to further consider the amendments that have been made to...
Isabel Bird | Examiner & Advocate Newspaper | October 29, 2020 Independent MP says private contact tracing information used for promotional purpose by hospitality businessThe collection of personal data by private businesses for coronavirus contact tracing is...
James Kitto | Mercury Newspaper | October 28, 2020 QUESTIONS have been asked of the state government about how Tasmanians’ personal information is being protected from businesses gathering COVID contact tracing data.It comes as independent MLC Meg Webb said she was...
An independent MLC has criticised the state government for not undertaking assessments of the potential economic and social risks of reopening poker machine venues during the COVID-19 pandemic.Right to Information documents show the state government didn't assess the...
The Kingborough community, and Tasmania as a whole, is losing increased amounts of money to poker machines in the wake of the coronavirus lockdowns, as revealed by updated figures for July. Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC said Tasmanian poker machine losses...
Poker machine losses increased by 26 per cent in July compared to the previous July, Treasury figures show.The recently released figures show $19.4 million was lost to the machines in their first full month of operation in the state since coronavirus restrictions were...
Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today Tasmanian poker machine losses have sky-rocketed to close to $20 million for July. “Department of Treasury and Finance figures show $19,428,375 have poured into the machines in July – that’s $626,721 per day,” Ms Webb...
In a bid to make electoral donations more transparent, the government commissioned a report – which it is keeping secret. Public submissions on ways the government could reduce the secrecy surrounding electoral donations have been kept secret for the past 12...
