March 19, 2016 12:00am – The Hobart Mercury – Opinion I used to work in the Safe Schools program that faces the axe. It was not called that then. It was Family Life Education. I was employed by the Catholic welfare organisation Centacare, to deliver a program to school students from Kinder to Years 11 […]
THE regrettable trend in modern politics, whereby winning elections is far more important than governing, is evident wherever parliamentary government is practised. […]
A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry has recommended an overhaul of Tasmania’s preventative healthcare systems with the state lagging far behind the national average in several areas. […]
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Wednesday 11 November 2015. 4.39 p.m.(No. 46) Second Reading Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, the purpose of this bill is obvious from the opening line of the speech. The bill is to recover some of the general costs of law enforcement and administration if a person is sentenced for offences in Tasmania. […]
November 15, 2015. 2.44 p.m.Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Dr GOODWIN Mr President, this is the supplementary question to the question I asked yesterday which was not fully answered by the Leader. […]
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November 15, 2015. 4.00 p.m. Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, each year the section 19 report gets a little better. I am not referring to the amounts in the report, more the accompanying explanations. When it comes to the impact on the budget, we do not get the full story. […]
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Tuesday 10 November 2015. 11.54 a.m. Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, if there was ever an issue that we should be able to discuss in a true nonpartisan way, then free trade should be it. […]
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Tuesday 10 November 2015. 11.16 a.m.International White Cane Day Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I am very confident in suggesting that not one of us in this Chamber gave any real thought to whether the entry to Parliament House may have changed this morning as a result of the current works underway on the Parliament Square development, […]
ALL the heavy lifting has been done, all major decisions made. The Tasmanian Government is back on track. This is what the media releases and headlines tell us. But is it really the case? The fact the general government sector, which covers all departments and agencies commonly referred to as “the government” forms only part of […]
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Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I support the bill. I do not consider it contentious legislation. It is quite appropriate legislation. It is putting the decision back in the hands of the court, more so than the current law, which only allows petitions for mercy from the Attorney-General and ultimately the Governor on advice […]
