Legislative Council Thursday 15 October, 2020 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the Heritage Tasmania and the Heritage Register: 1. Which Local Government Areas (LGA) have undertaken municipal heritage surveys with Heritage Tasmania; and(a) for each LGA what year were they completed; 2. Which […]
Legislative Council Thursday 15 October, 2020 Ms FORREST question to LEADER of the GOVERNMENT in the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Mrs HISCUTT With regard to the reservoir at Waratah that has previously been used by TasWater, I understand from LIST PID information regarding the Waratah Reservoir and associated infrastructure that all elements and infrastructure related to this […]
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 other than Dan Butler. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
