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Talking Point-Is Pokies Card Still a Sure Bet?

Talking Point-Is Pokies Card Still a Sure Bet?

Talking Point | The Mercury | 7 May 2024; pg 51 Is Pokies Card Still a Sure Bet?Let's hope he government doesn't abandon the community, writes Meg WebbIn April this year, Tasmanians lost $15.3m to poker machines, putting us on track to match last year’s total losses...

Article-Kingborough Chronicle ANZAC day message

Article-Kingborough Chronicle ANZAC day message

Kingborough Chronicle | 23 April 2024; pg 12.ANZAC Day MessageA pause to remember, writes Meg Webb MLC.Each year, on the morning of the 25th of April, Australians pause to commemorate the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli in...

Talking Point-The Standard You Vote For is the Standard You Accept

Talking Point-The Standard You Vote For is the Standard You Accept

Talking Point | The Mercury | 22 March 2024 AIM HIGH ON POLLING DAY BECAUSE THE STANDARD WE VOTE FOR IS THE STANDARD WE ACCEPTPick Candidates Suitable to a Collaborative Parliament, writes Meg Webb.Former Australian of the Year General David Morrison made the powerful...

Opinion Piece-Gender Lens provides better budget equality

Opinion Piece-Gender Lens provides better budget equality

Opinion Piece| The Hobart Observer | 12 March 2024; pg 15.Women's History Month FeatureGender Lens Reveals Better Budget Equality, writes Meg Webb MLC.WOMEN’S History Month encourages us to learn more about the stories behind working for greater gender equality.The...

Talking Point-Premier Frames Independents as Early Election Scapegoats

Talking Point-Premier Frames Independents as Early Election Scapegoats

Talking Point | The Mercury | 8 February 2024  Premier Should Face Music, not Frame Independents as Early Election Scapegoats Rockliff Should have Guts to Test Confidence on the Floor of the House, writes Meg Webb. For all of Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s repeated...

Talking Point-75th Anniversary of the UN Human RIghts Declaration

Talking Point-75th Anniversary of the UN Human RIghts Declaration

Talking Point | The Saturday Mercury | 9 December 2023 War-Torn Backdrop of Suffering Illustrates How Much Tasmania Needs to Focus on Ensuring Human Rights, writes Meg Webb.Happy 75th birthday to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights!We celebrate this milestone...

Talking Point- David Adams Writes that Inquiry Cloud Must be Lifted

Talking Point- David Adams Writes that Inquiry Cloud Must be Lifted

In the Mercury, Friday 3 November 2023, former Social Inclusion Commissioner, Professor David Adams writes about the parliamentary events of this week surrounding the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Response to Child Sexual...

Article-MP Calls for Release of Diaries

Article-MP Calls for Release of Diaries

Article | The Mercury | 7 August 2023; pg 3MP calls for release of diariesUpper House MP Meg Webb has called on state government ministers to release their ministerial diaries, somethingshe says is overdue.Ms Webb asked for the April, May and June diaries to be made...

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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