Other
Parliamentary contributions that don’t fall under standard categories, including procedural remarks and unique interventions.
Budget Reply 2019
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…
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REPLY – PREMIER’S ADDRESS
Legislative Council Wednesday 10 April 2019 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, we all look forward to hearing good stories with happy endings, especially in these turbulent times, but…
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Adjournment – Schoolchildren and Safety on Buses
Legislative Council Thursday 21 June, 2018 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I wish to make a contribution regarding the safety of our children, particularly schoolchildren on the north-west coast. …
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ADDRESS-IN-REPLY TO GOVERNOR’S SPEECH
Legislative Council Thursday 24 May 2018 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I welcome the opportunity to make some comments in reply to Her Excellency’s speech on the opening of…
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Adjournment – Reason for Early Rising
Legislative Council – Wednesday 18 October 2017 Ms FORREST (Murchison ) – Mr President, as it is only 4 o’clock, I am wondering why we are not going with the…
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ADJOURNMENT – National Stroke Audit – Northern Tasmania
Legislative Council Tuesday 28 November 2017 Ms FORREST (Murchison ) – Mr President, I wish to make a fairly brief contribution on adjournment. In recent days a national stroke audit…
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Adjournment – King Island Shipping Service
Legislative Council Thursday 19 October 2017 Ms FORREST (Murchison ) – Mr President, I want to ask a question of the Government in light of the debate we have just…
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Gaming Control Amendment (Community Interest) Bill – Second Reading
Legislative Council Thursday 10 November 2016 GAMING CONTROL AMENDMENT (COMMUNITY INTEREST) BILL 2016 (No. 65) Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I will make a brief contribution and I will…
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MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE -LGH EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT – CRISIS
[12.33 p.m.] Mrs ARMITAGE (Launceston) (by leave) – Mr President, in accordance with the provisions of standing order 32(3) I move – That the Council does now adjourn for…
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ADJOURNMENT – Casual Senate Vacancies
Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I am using this opportunity on adjournment to make some comments I wished to make this morning during the joint sitting, but was not…
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ADJOURNMENT – Shooting of Stock on Private Property
[5.58 p.m.] Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I want to make a brief contribution and pose a question to the Government. A constituent of mine over the last two…
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Response to Premier’s Address
[3.00 p.m.]Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, we get an opportunity a couple of times a year in this place to deliver what has often been titled a ‘grievance debate’,…
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