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Speech-in-Reply: Tasmanian State Budget 2021

Speech-in-Reply: Tasmanian State Budget 2021

Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Mr President, I rise to respond to the State Budget 2021-22.I welcome the many long-awaited initiatives and commitments contained in this budget.  I welcome the explicit recognition that merely delivering on election commitments is insufficient when...

Donations law alarm

Donations law alarm

Helen Kempton | Mercury | 27 August 2021     NEW legislation to change Tasmania’s political donation disclosure laws are open for public discussion and there are already concerns they contain a “sting in the tail”.The government says it is delivering on its commitment...

Media Release – Political Donation Reform Fail

Media Release – Political Donation Reform Fail

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said today the long-awaited and long-overdue proposed Tasmanian political donation reforms contain a disturbing sting in the tail.“The release yesterday of the political donations reforms for public consultation should be a...

Increasing Judicial Retirement Age Bill 2021

Increasing Judicial Retirement Age Bill 2021

Ms WEBB (Nelson) - I have some brief comments on this bill.  I also believe it is appropriate to extend the retirement age for our judges.  As has been pointed out in the second reading speech and by others here, we are all living longer and are able to contribute in...

Supply Bills 3 & 4 2021

Supply Bills 3 & 4 2021

Ms WEBB - Thank you, Mr President, I have a few remarks to make although I agreed with much of what the member for Murchison has just said.  For the record, we had similar thoughts on a number of those things so let me pick up on a few of them.At the outset it is...

Question – National Driver Licence Facial Recognition System

Question – National Driver Licence Facial Recognition System

Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 28 July 2021. Answered by the Hon Michael Ferguson  Minister for Infrastructure and Transport on 24 August 2021. QUESTION (1): In October 2020 in response to the Legislative Council e-Petition No. 33 Transfer of driver...

Joint House Committee Inquiry into 2021 Elections

Joint House Committee Inquiry into 2021 Elections

Media Release | 23 August 2021  Independent Member for Nelson said the resumption of parliament provides the first opportunity for the Lower House to consider the Legislative Council’s request for a Joint House Committee into the conduct of the concurrent 2021...

Casino deal kept secret

Casino deal kept secret

David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 19 August 2021  Tax rate a ‘gift to party donor’THE state government secretly negotiated “acceptable” casino tax rates with Federal Group last year but kept the details quiet until after the election, documents released under right...

Tas Govt plan to slash tax rates known before election

Tas Govt plan to slash tax rates known before election

Alexandra Humphries | ABC News  | 18 August 2021  Crucial information withheld from the state’s major stakeholders - the Tasmanian people - during the election campaign. Meg Webb on ABC News Hobart.  Read Meg’s Media Release hereSee the RTI...

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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