Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 23 November 2021 Meg Webb speaks about inequities in the proposed pokies tax rate and the missed opportunity to implement easy pokies harm minimisation measures in the Future Gaming Bill on Tasmania Talks with Mike O'Loughlin.See...
David Killick | Mercury | 23 November 2021 THE unexplained difference between the tax rates proposed for gambling in pubs, clubs and casinos could benefit Federal Group by nearly $250m over the next 20 years, the Legislative Council has heard.Debate on the...
David Killick | Mercury | 18 November 2021 Labor has been accused of “betraying the battlers of Tasmania” by voting to prevent further scrutiny of the government’s gambling reform legislation.CONTROVERSIAL gambling reforms look set to pass the Legislative Council in...
Sue Bailey | Mercury | 15 November 2021 THE future of the government’s controversial poker machine reforms will again be debated in the Legislative Council this week.At least one member of the Upper House it set to move for the Bill to be referred to a committee for...
Adam Holmes | Examiner/Advocate | 12 November 2021 Over the course of a six-and-a-half-hour speech in the upper house, Nelson independent MLC Meg Webb has laid bare her years of research into Tasmanian poker machine policy to slam the two major parties over the...
David Killick | Mercury | 12 November 2021 TASMANIA’S Upper House members last night sat through what was labelled the Legislative Councils’ longest ever speech as debate surrounding gambling legislation dragged into the late hours of the evening.MLCs heard major...
Third Reading Speech 24 November 2021 Ms WEBB (Nelson) - I am mindful of the strictures of speeches. I appreciate...
Matt Maloney | Examiner | 9 November 2021 LABOR MLCs who do not stand by their previously held views on the damage caused by poker machines this week could have their pre-selection chances damaged, party powerbroker Tim Jacobson says.Mr Jacobson, who is the head of...
Stephanie Convery | The Guardian | 9 November 2021Bill before state’s upper house has ‘been literally written by industry’, an independent MP says.Tasmania became the first state in Australia to open a casino in 1973, and since then, it has become a place in which the...
Kingborough Chronicle | 9 November 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC aims to send the Tasmanian Government’s contentious Future Gaming Markets legislation to a parliamentary inquiry this week.In a media release on Monday, November 8, Ms Webb questioned...
