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Do elections bring out the worst in politics?

Do elections bring out the worst in politics?

Comment | Kingborough Chronicle | April 27, 2021   Do elections bring out the worst in politics? It’s such a shame that at the time we are asked to choose our political representatives, they often provide us with a poor impression of their values and fitness for...

Clouds over election’s secret deals

Clouds over election’s secret deals

Kingborough Chronicle | April 20, 2021  Tasmania is not having a free and fair state election, according to an associate professor of public policy at the University of Tasmania and a director of the Tasmanian Election Inquiry group, reported in the Tasmanian Inquirer...

Tasmanian Premier rebuffs calls to move election date

Tasmanian Premier rebuffs calls to move election date

Matt Maloney| Advocate Newspaper | April 1, 2021   Premier Peter Gutwein has resisted a call from independent members in the Legislative Council to move the upper house election scheduled for May 1 - the same day as the House of Assembly election.Six independent MLCs...

Premier declines plea to change Legislative Council poll date

Premier declines plea to change Legislative Council poll date

Helen Kempton| Mercury Newspaper | April 1, 2021  A call for the Legislative Council’s polling day to be moved from the same day as the Lower House election has been “politely declined”.  TASMANIA’S Premier has “politely declined” a call from six independent MLCs to...

Pokies back on agenda

Pokies back on agenda

Mercury Newspaper | March 30, 2021  PREMIER Peter Gutwein needs to release the tax rate for casino pokies during the election campaign, say independent member for Nelson Meg Webb and the Greens.Ms Webb, an anti-pokie campaigner, said if the government was still in...

Gaming reform delayed

Gaming reform delayed

Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | March 29, 2021  Meg Webb on delayed Tasmanian gaming reforms with Leon Compton ABC Mornings.Read Meg's media release on gaming donations

Media Release – Early Election and Gaming Donations

Media Release – Early Election and Gaming Donations

 Media Release | March 26, 2021   Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Gutwein State Government and all Tasmanian political parties to rule out donations from gaming interests if an early election is called.“In the past week we have seen major...

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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