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Media Release: Welcome Reforms to Commissions of Inquiry Act Underway

Media Release: Welcome Reforms to Commissions of Inquiry Act Underway

Welcome Reforms to Commissions of Inquiry Act UnderwayWednesday, 10 September 2025Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC has welcomed progress of the Commissions of Inquiry Amendment (Private Sessions Information) Bill, passed by the State Lower House today,...

Article-Pokies loss tops $18m in a month

Article-Pokies loss tops $18m in a month

Mercury | 3 September 2025; pg 9. Article- Pokies loss tops $18m in a monthDavid KillickTasmanians lost more than $18m gambling on poker machines in July, the highest monthly figure in five years, new Treasury data shows.Reforms to gambling laws intended to reduce...

Article-Answers Needed on Child Reports

Article-Answers Needed on Child Reports

Mercury | 2 September 2025: pg 5. Article- Answers Needed on Child ReportsDavid KillickAn independent MP has accused the Liberal government of a lack of transparency for not releasing two reports relating to the Commission of Inquiry, which delivered its final report...

Talking Point-Don’t be Fooled by Claims of Bipartisanship

Talking Point-Don’t be Fooled by Claims of Bipartisanship

Image: Computer Fixx Talking Point | The Saturday Mercury | 30 August 2025; pg 53Don't be Fooled by Claims of BipartisanshipWill Our Political Leopards Truly Change Their Spots, asks Meg Webb MLCHow will we tell whether our State political leopards have truly changed...

Motion Tabled – Ministerial Diaries Reform-Call for Action

Motion Tabled – Ministerial Diaries Reform-Call for Action

 The Hon. Meg Webb MLC tabled the following motion in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, 19 August 2025, (following the resumption of the Tasmanian Parliament after its proroguing for the early July state election), noting the previous calls by the Legislative...

Motion Tabled – Custodial Inspector’s Annual Report 2023-24

Motion Tabled – Custodial Inspector’s Annual Report 2023-24

 The Hon. Meg Webb MLC tabled the following motion in the Legislative Council on Tuesday, 19 August 2025, (following the resumption of the Tasmanian Parliament after its proroguing for the early July state election), drawing attention to the Custodial Inspector's...

Article-Lock Them in for Four Years? Call to forbid early elections.

Article-Lock Them in for Four Years? Call to forbid early elections.

Examiner | 24 July 2025: pg 4. Article-Lock Them in for Four Years? Call to forbid early elections.Matt MaloneyFixed parliamentary terms are being pushed to prevent opportunistic early elections, but political experts say this will not prevent them from occurring...

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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