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 Mornings with Leon Compton […]
ABC Mornings with Leon Compton – VAD Bill
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 Beer’s love-filled 51 years of marriage, the pair raised a pilot son and doctor daughter and shared a mutual love of seeing the world via […]
Member for Mersey’s Comments
Legislative Council Tuesday 22 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I wish to make a brief contribution on adjournment. In response to the comments made by the member for Mersey in his summing up of debate on the bill we have just dealt with, I feel that it is important to speak to […]
Vice Admiral Ian Donald George MacDougall – Tribute
Legislative Council Tuesday 22 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I wish to pay my respects and acknowledge the passing of Vice Admiral Ian Donald George MacDougall, who passed away at the North West Regional Hospital on 1 July this year aged 82. Ian was a former submariner who rose to high ranks in […]
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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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MAIB and NDIS – Person-Centred Support Failure
Legislative Council Wednesday 16 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, I will make a brief contribution on adjournment. This matter came to my office just a few days ago and disturbed me to the point that I asked the people involved if they would mind me sharing their story on the adjournment here […]
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CONDOLENCE MOTION – Anthony William Fletcher MLC
Legislative Council Thursday 17 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) (by leave) – Mr President, I move – That this Council expresses its profound regret at the death, on 27 August 2020, of Anthony William Fletcher, who served on the Legislative Council as a member from 1981, in the electorate known as Russell, and from 1999 […]
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END-OF-LIFE CHOICES (VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING) BILL 2020
Legislative Council Tuesday 15 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, this bill is one of the most challenging areas of public policy I have considered in my 15-plus years here, and we have had a few of those over the years. This is certainly not a criticism; it is a complex and fraught […]
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Wynyard Showground Industrial Hall Project
Legislative Council Tuesday 15 September, 2020 Ms FORREST (Murchison) – Mr President, on 13 May 1885 the very first show was held at the historic Wynyard Showground in Jackson Street. The Wynyard Show continues to be held on the Saturday closest to 15 March each year. This show is one of Tasmania’s oldest remaining centenary […]
North-West Regional Hospital hydrotherapy pool
Legislative Council Tuesday 22 September, 2020 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the North-West Regional Hospital hydrotherapy pool which was closed on 25 March due to COVID-19 and remains closed, I note that in a newspaper article dated 19 August a Tasmanian Health Service […]
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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 of Marrawah in the far North-West of my electorate, and this was to become his final resting place. A transcript of this speech can be […]
Re-location of Burnie Court
Legislative Council Wednesday 16 September, 2020 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the Burnie Court re-location to a more suitable premises: 1. When, and in what form, will genuine community consultation occur with stakeholders in the vicinity of the proposed UTAS location including neighbouring […]