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Media Release: Challenge to Change Right-to-Information Culture

Media Release: Challenge to Change Right-to-Information Culture

Challenge to Change Right-to-Information Culture26 June 2024Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called for an overhaul of the state’s Right to Information (RTI) culture to bring it back in alignment with the spirit and intent of the laws.“Throwing money at...

Article-$75M for ex-Ashley detainees

Article-$75M for ex-Ashley detainees

The Mercury | 22 June 2024; pg 1;7. $75M for ex-Ashley detainees Settlement compo for abuse, trauma David Killlick The state government has agreed to pay $75m to settle a class action brought by former detainees at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. Lawyers acting for...

Media Release: Blake Review Addendum is No Clean Bill of Health

Media Release: Blake Review Addendum is No Clean Bill of Health

Blake Review Addendum is No Clean Bill of Health21 June 2024Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the release of an Addendum Report to the flawed Blake Review still does not provide the comprehensive clean bill of health claimed by the Rockliff...

Media Release: Duty of Care Requires Premier Must Act on Ashley

Media Release: Duty of Care Requires Premier Must Act on Ashley

Duty of Care Requires Premier Must act on Ashley21 June 2024Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the shocking allegation of a recent incident of serious abuse at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre has occurred on the watch of the Rockliff government,...

Speech – Sentencing Amendment (Alcohol Treatment Order) Bill 2024

Speech – Sentencing Amendment (Alcohol Treatment Order) Bill 2024

View Meg below delivering her second reading speech on 20 June 2024 to the Sentencing Amendment (Alcohol Treatment Order) Bill 2024 - in which she provides a short contribution on the bill and why she is pleased to support it.  Read below or download Meg's speech as a...

Speech – State Litigator (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024

Speech – State Litigator (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024

View Meg below delivering her second reading speech on 20 June 2024 to the government's State Litigator (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024 (No. 8) - during which she gave her brief contribution in support of the bill.The speech can be viewed in two parts below. ...

Question – Ashley Youth Detention Centre School

Question – Ashley Youth Detention Centre School

The Hon. Meg Webb MLC asked the following question to the Hon. Jo Palmer MLC Minister for Education, in the Legislative Council.  Text of Question Asked by Meg:Question20 June 2024[3.12 p.m.]This question will probably be taken on notice, so I would like to put it on...

Article-Emergency task force 1013 days after closure vow

Article-Emergency task force 1013 days after closure vow

The Mercury | 19 June 2024; pg 6. Emergency task force 1013 days after closure Genevieve Holding The Tasmanian Legislative Council has voted in support of a motion to establish an emergency task force to remove children from Ashley Youth Detention Centre, 1013 days...

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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