Matt Maloney | Examiner | June 24, 2021 The Legislative Council is set to debate a motion for an inquiry to be held on the recent state election to namely examine the rationale for an early election and the impact of having lower house and upper house elections run...
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Madam Deputy President, I rise to make my contribution to the Governor's Address-in-Reply. I congratulate Her Excellency, Barbara Baker, on commencing her term as Governor of Tasmania. I am particularly pleased, for only the second time in the...
Media Release | June 23, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb last night tabled a Notice of Motion to establish a Joint Select Committee into the 2021 House of Assembly and Legislative Council Elections.Ms Webb said elections are a fundamental right of the...
Andrea Crothers | Sky News | May 1, 2021 Tasmanian Independent MP Megan Webb says if the Liberal Party "just holds its ground, or goes back a little bit", that's the Tasmanian people giving the government "a bit of a slap". "A government that - for politically...
Matt Coughlan & Ethan James | The Young Witness | May 1, 2021 The Liberal Party has won a historic third term in Tasmania with ongoing vote counting still to determine if they will govern in majority. With more than half of the votes counted, the Liberals are...
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...
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...
Adam Morton| Advocate Newspaper | April 1, 2021 Peter Gutwein, whose decisive approach to the pandemic helped soften his public image, aims to capitalise on the pro-incumbent mood, observers say. The afternoon before the Tasmanian premier, Peter Gutwein, announced...
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...
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...
