Author: Ruth Forrest

Legislative Council Tuesday 10 July, 2018 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT The Report on Termination of Pregnancy in response to the parliamentary notice of motion tabled on 3 July 2018 in the House of Assembly states – While the potential addition of a new local private […]

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Legislative Council Tuesday 10 July, 2018 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT On 3 July 2018, the Minister for Health and Human Services stated in a media release titled ‘Department of Health report on surgical termination services’ – The Department will also provide increased funding to the […]

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Legislative Council Tuesday 10 July, 2018  Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Mrs HISCUTT The Report on Termination of Pregnancy in response to the parliamentary notice of motion tabled on 3 July 2018 states under ‘Conclusions and advice to government’ a number of principles emerged as necessary for a safe, […]

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Legislative Council Tuesday 10 July, 2018 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT The Report on Termination of Pregnancy in response to a parliamentary notice of motion tabled on the 3 July 2018 in the House of Assembly states While the potential addition of a local private provider in the […]

Read More… from Report on Termination of Pregnancy – Patient Travel Assistance Scheme 

Legislative Council Tuesday 10 July, 2018 Ms FORREST question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT The Report on Termination of Pregnancy in response to a parliamentary notice of motion tabled on 3 July 2018 in the House of Assembly notes 28 stakeholders who were contacted for comment, either as […]

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Legislative Council Tuesday 19 June Ms  FORREST  question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT The specialist rural worker on King Island, a position created to provide counselling and social welfare support on the island, who has provided full-time counselling, support and health promotion for 17 years, has been made redundant.  […]

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Legislative Council Thursday 21 June, 2018 Ms FORREST – Mr President, I have a supplementary question for the Leader.  While she answered most of my questions, I did ask for a breakdown by locality in terms of the number of schools in areas that provide contract school buses.  I believe there is more in the […]

Read More… from School Bus Services – Seatbelts and Bus Age (Supplementary Question)

Legislative Council Thursday 21 June, 2018 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT Regarding passenger transport services that transport children to and from schools, broken down by locality – for example, north-west coast, west coast, east coast, south-east and so on – and urban, for example, Launceston, Hobart […]

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