Video
TV appearances, recorded interviews, and other video content relating to Ruth’s work and advocacy.
Special Interest Matters – Kirsten Slemint, filmmaker
Kirsty Slemint, a science communicator and documentary filmmaker from North-West Tasmania, is the first Australian to be offered a place at the prestigious National Film and Television School in the…
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Special Interest Matters – The Unconformity Festival
The Unconformity is an arts organisation that holds a unique festival every two years in Queenstown on the West Coast of Tasmania.After a break due to Covid in 2020, the…
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SPECIAL INTEREST MATTERS – Walking Wynyard
Legislative Council, Tuesday 31 August 2021 The Waratah-Wynyard Council, through its Public Art Advisory Group, has produced an illustrated map combining walking and art which is intended to communicate information…
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Justice Miscellaneous Commissions Of Inquiry Bill 2021
Ruth Forrest MLC – Contribution on the Justice Miscellaneous Commissions Of Inquiry Bill 2021 [...]Read More... from Justice Miscellaneous Commissions Of Inquiry Bill 2021
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King Island Electorate Tour
Legislative Council Tuesday 23 March, 2021 An electorate familiarisation tour provides an opportunity for Members to ‘showcase’ the electorates on a rotational basis as a means of informing the other…
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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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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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