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...
Parliament
Speech: Police Powers (Surveillance Devices) Amendment Bill 2022
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...
Address-in-Reply: Premier’s State of the State Address 2023
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...
Speech-in-Reply: Tasmania State Budget 2023
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...
Motion Debate – Call to Review Tas OPCAT Against Human Rights Recommendations
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....
Background Briefing Paper: Disclosing Who is in the (Ministerial) Room
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...
Background Briefing Paper: A Tasmanian universal card-based system for poker machines (EGMs)
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...
Expansion of House of Assembly Bill
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...
Background Briefing Paper: Tasmanian Electoral Disclosure and Funding Legislation
Tasmanian Electoral Disclosure and Funding Legislation31 October 2022On Thursday 27 October, the Liberal Government’s long-awaited Electoral Disclosure and Funding Bill 2022 was boughton for debate in the House of Assembly after being tabled some five months prior.The...
Background Briefing Paper: Restoring House of Assembly Numbers
Restoring House of Assembly Numbers19 September 2022On 25 May 2022 Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff made an announcement signaling the Government’s intention to restore the House of Assembly to 35 Members, reversing the reduction of numbers to 25 undertaken in...
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
PETITION
