Talking Point | The Mercury | 25 July 2023Â OPPORTUNITY TO RESHAPE PARLIAMENT: The Next Election Offers Community Chance to Transform Governance, writes Meg WebbSpeculation is swirling about an early state election. However, the most interesting thing about the next...
Meg raised World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, as a Special Interest Matter, on Tuesday, 27 June 2023. Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I rise to talk about an important, concerning and often hidden issue in our community - that of elder abuse. It is an issue that is...
Meg spoke in response to the Government's motion seeking to establish a process by which MPs could examine AFL stadium-related confidential documents, on Tuesday, 27 June 2023. Text of (government) Motion as tabled and debated:[pdf-embedder...
Meg delivered her main speech (second reading) to the Police Powers (Surveillance Devices) Bill 2022, on Thursday, 1 June 2023. Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I rise to speak on this with quite a degree of concern. The bill seeks to amend the Police Powers...
Meg delivered her formal Speech in Reply to the Premier's annual State of the State Address, on Thursday, 1 June 2023. Ms WEBB (Nelson) - I rise to make my reply to the Premier's Address. It is not what I was necessarily expecting to do this week and I note that just...
Meg delivered her formal Reply Speech to the State Budget 2023-24, on Wednesday, 31 May 2023. Ms WEBB (Nelson) -Â Mr President, I rise to make my response to the state Budget and I have been very pleased to be listening to the contributions of other members and thank...
Meg brought on for debate in the Legislative Council her motion calling for the Tasmanian OPCAT Implementation Act 2021 to be evaluated against the Australian Human Rights Commission's Road May to OPCAT Compliance, on Tuesday 23 May 2023.The Motion passed unamended....
Disclosing Who is in the (Ministerial) Room27 March 2023Background Information: Motion to Develop and Consult a Process for the Regular Publication of Tasmanian Ministerial Diaries. The Briefing Paper can be viewed below as a pdf or here:[embeddoc...
A Tasmanian universal card-based system for poker machines (EGMs)22 February 2023Following the passage of the Future Gaming Market Bill in November 2021, the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission (TLGC) was directed to report on both card-based play and facial...
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, the Expansion of House of Assembly Bill 2022 is one of the most significant pieces of legislation that have come before us in this place. It is also legislation nearly 25 years in the making. Although there are no current members of...
