Watch the 7 Nightly News TV report on Monday 28 October 2024, during which Meg is calling on the Premier to release the full details of a review into the government's mandatory pre-commitment pokies card.Â
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Media Release: Premier faces Vote on Pokies Card Deloittes Review Terms of Reference
Premier faces Vote on Pokies Card Deloittes Review Terms of ReferenceMonday, 28 October 2024Premier Jeremy Rockliff is under increasing pressure to release details of the Deloitte Access Economics review of the promised pokies mandatory pre-commitment card, and is...
Speech – Electoral Amendment Bill 2024
View Meg delivering her second reading speech on Wednesday 23 October 2024 to the government's Electoral Amendment Bill 2024 - during which she provides reasons for why she does not support the Bill as it currently stands, and why she would prefer it be further...
Motion Tabled – Call for Pokies Deloittes Review Brief to be Released
The Hon. Meg Webb MLC tabled the following motion in the Legislative Council on Wednesday 23 October2024, calling for the government to release the terms of reference for the Deloitte Access Economics’ social and economic impact review of the poker machine...
Talking Point-Pollies Under Pressure to Abandon Pokies Card Reform
Talking Point | The Mercury | 23 October 2024; pg 14-15Â Pollies Under Pressure to Abandon Pokies Card ReformThe Grip Of The Pokies Industry On Both Major Parties Means Tasmanians Are The Big Losers, writes Meg WebbIn a column on these pages in May this year, I warned...
Media Release: Upper House Demands Thorough Examination of Complex Judicial Commission Bill Legislation
Upper House Demands Thorough Examination of Complex Judicial Commission Bill LegislationTuesday, 22 October 2024Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today said given the acknowledged complexity of the Government’s Judicial Commission Bill 2024, she welcomed the...
Article-Legal Bills mystery; Calls for transparency on $500k in fees
The Mercury | 19 October 2024; First page;pg 5.Legal Bills mystery; Mystery of integrity legal feesCalls for transparency on $500k in feesDavid Killick   The state government has shelled out more than $200,000 so far this year to cover legal costs run up by a minister...
Article-Anti-pokies MPs slam new delay
The Mercury | 18 October 2024; pg 8-9.Anti-pokies MPs slam new delayDavid Killick  Anti-pokies MPs say the state government is watering down its gambling reforms at the bidding of the pokies barons but the industry has countered with claims a card-based scheme could...
Media Release: Premier Prepares to Break Pokies Election Promise
Premier Prepares to Break Pokies Election PromiseThursday, 17 October 2024Independent member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC has slammed revelations the Rockliff Liberal Government has commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to review the impacts of the promised mandatory...
7 Nightly News Report – Premier Must Reaffirm Commitment to Implementing Pokies Card
Watch the 7 Nightly News TV report on Wednesday 16 October 2024, during which Meg, and other Assembly MPs, raise concerns over whether some parts of the pokies pre-commitment card reform scheme will be watered down. They ask the Liberal Government to reaffirm its...
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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