Legislative Council Thursday 8 August, 2019 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the state Government’s Quad Bike Safety Rebate Scheme, now available to Tasmanian farmers: given that two quad bike manufacturers, Honda and Yamaha, have threatened to pull out of the market if operator protection […]
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Legislative Council Thursday 8, 2019 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT (1) With regard to the section of the Bass Highway west of Boat Harbour to Smithton, and particularly the overtaking lanes through Sisters Hills, is the Government aware that this section of road, which has a […]
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Legislative Council Thursday 8 August, 2019 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the expansion of open net-pen salmon farming into Storm Bay- (1) Have all the baseline surveys been completed? If not – (a) which surveys have been completed (b) at which sites have […]
Legislative Council Thursday 8 August, 2019 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT My question follows from a question I asked on Tuesday. On Wednesday, 17 July 2019, in an article titled ‘Public Sector job cuts loom, Budget savings could cost 2200 posts’, The Mercury reported that the – […]
Legislative Council Tuesday 6 August, 2019 Ms FORREST question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT Wednesday, 17 July 2019 in the Mercury in an article titled: Public sector job cuts loom; Budget savings could cost 2200 posts, “Treasury are currently working with agencies to identify savings which will be […]
Ruth Forrest MLC speaks about the motion seeking support to investigate the issue of pill testing at music festivals […]
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Ruth Forrest MLC is speaking from London where she is attending a workshop investigating gender sensitive legislation […]
Ruth Forrest MLC discusses the Tasmanian budget […]
Legislative Council Tuesday 28 May,2019 Mr President, this budget is a disaster. I’m not saying the government has engineered the debacle. But they have presided over the growing calamity that Blind Freddie spotted at least a year ago. I guess they hoped for a miracle. Unfortunately the gods don’t hand out miracles willy nilly. […]
Legislative Council Wednesday 29 May, 2019 Ms FORREST question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to demands on the Tasmanian Risk Management Fund, Last year’s Budget paper Number 1 stated: The expected overall increase in contributions for 2018-19 is mainly due to increases in both workers’ compensation […]
Legislative Council Wednesday 29 May, 2019 Ms FORREST question to the LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT Regarding scholarships for early childhood educators working in early childhood services; 1. How many scholarship positions for Bachelor of Education scholarships were made available to early childhood services; 2. How many were awarded; […]
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Legislative Council Thursday 24 May, 2019 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT QUESTION: Tasmania has only one public clinic dealing with chronic pain, the Persistent Pain Clinic in Hobart at the Royal Hobart Hospital. This clinic has long waiting lists both for the initial information session and for […]
