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Government Ministers Urged to Support Decriminalisation of Begging in Tasmania
The Greens today tabled legislation to amend the Police Offences Act 1935 to remove a throwback provision that makes criminals of people...
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Community Consultation on Pokies Only the First Step
The Gaming Control Amendment (Community Consultation) Bill is a good first step to including the wider Tasmanian public in decision-making about where...
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Greens Table Peter Murrell Reserve Petition
I had the pleasure of tabling a petition in Parliament today opposing the TasWater pipeline being proposed to cut through the Peter...
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Barnett Continues to Mislead, Divide over Forestry
The big lie of a commercially viable and sustainable native forest industry was exposed with the release of Forestry Tasmania’s 2015-16 annual...
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Pill Testing Could Save Tasmanian Lives
Police Minister, Rene Hidding, once again showed Tasmanians he would rather continue a failed “war on drugs” than reduce the risk of...
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Forestry Tasmania Advice Highlights Need for Action to Protect Jobs, Growth
Forestry Tasmania is losing money on more than a quarter of the trees harvested from production forests each year, costing taxpayers and...
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Government refuses to say who authorised Basslink decision
• Hydro stops paying Basslink facility fee • Premier and Minister won’t say who signed off on the decision • More secrecy...
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Government needs to withdraw Legal Services Direction
The Government needs to withdraw its flawed Legal Services Direction before starting the process to appoint a new Solicitor-General, the Australian Greens...
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Law Society congratulates new Chief Magistrate
The Law Society of Tasmania today extends its warm congratulations to Ms Catherine Rheinberger who has been appointed as the new Chief...
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Stop sabotaging Forestry Tasmania and our wild forests – Cut the sawlog quota
Markets for Change today urged the Tasmanian Forests Minister to stop sabotaging Forestry Tasmania and to instead take their advice to cut...
