Media
Media appearances and press coverage featuring Ruth Forrest.
The Energy Co-Ordination and Planning Amendment (Tasmanian Renewable Energy Target) Bill 2020
I am all for making bold decisions, but there are a lot of unanswered questions in my mind about this Bill, and concerns have also been raised by stakeholders. …
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Special Interest Matters – Chris Symonds and Wynyard Yacht Club
Chris Symonds is a well-known Wynyard sporting and community identity, who I have spoken about before. Chris has been sailing since he was nine years old and is a successful…
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Special Interest Matters – Step In program
Step In – Advancing Women in Industry is a pilot program designed to support women who are interested in moving into the mining, manufacturing and energy sectors. [...]Read More...…
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Special Interest Matters – Stewart McSweyn
Stewart McSweyn is a distance runner who has had a meteoric rise in the last couple of years and has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in three events, which is…
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Special Interest Matters – Emmerton Park Saints Super Fans
Chris Morris and Robert Palmer could be described as two of the most one-eyed true-blue St. Kilda fans you will ever meet! They recently received a surprise zoom call from none…
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ABC Mornings with Leon Compton – VAD Bill
Legislative Councillors move closer to a vote on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, but it could take a while due to the number of amendments Ruth Forrest · ABC…
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Husband shares wife’s story as voluntary assisted dying bill faces unclear fate in Tasmania
You could hardly write a sweeter opening scene for a silver-screen romance: man meets woman at dry cleaner, she cracks a funny joke, he’s immediately smitten. During Gwen and Daryl…
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Adjournment speech – Mass stranding of pilot whales
The eyes of the world have been on our state in recent days as a result of a mass stranding of pilot whales in a remote part of my electorate.…
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Special Interest Matters – Ian MacDougall
Vice Admiral Ian Donald George MacDougall passed away at the North-West Regional Hospital on the 1st July this year aged 82. The former sub-mariner chose to retire to the town…
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ABC Mornings with Leon Compton
Topics discussed this morning include the Tasmanian health system, Major Projects legislation before the Parliamend and political donations Ruth Forrest · ABC Mornings [...]Read More... from ABC Mornings with…
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Special Interest Matters – Wynyard Showground
The Wynyard Show Society was recently successful in securing Federal funding from the Regional Agricultural Show Development Grants program. These funds in addition to financial support from the State Government…
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ABC Mornings with Leon Compton
Debate over the Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation will commence when Parliament resumes this week, but there are also other matters of interest to Tasmanians that need to be dealt with…
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