GE-Free Status Continues
The move to roll over the current moratorium on genetically-engineered (GE) crops and animals for a further five years is welcome.
Aug
2014
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Media Releases
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Aug
2014
19
Legal Advice Concerns Grow
The Liberal government is refusing to listen to constitutional and legal experts.
Aug
2014
19
Venture Minerals Pulls Plug
The Hodgman government must guarantee that Venture Minerals will be required to fully rehabilitate its Riley Creek site.
Aug
2014
18
Anti Protest Legal Advice
The government’s anti-protest laws carry “...a high risk of capturing individuals who would not in any sense be characterised as extremist”.
Aug
2014
18
RET Jobs Threat
Greens Leader Kim Booth MP today slammed the Abbott government’s threat to the Renewable Energy Target.
Aug
2014
15
Medicinal Cannabis Petty Politics on Display
The Commonwealth overturning Norfolk Island’s approval for medicinal cannabis trials is a predictable display of narrow-minded and petty politics.
Aug
2014
14
Medicinal Cannabis Inquiry Submissions Due
Tasmanians are being urged to lodge a submission with the Legislative Council Parliamentary Committee Inquiry which closes tomorrow.
Aug
2014
14
Don’t Blame Solar
Blaming solar owners is just a smokescreen and to alter the tariff arrangements for those already connected would be a massive betrayal of trust.
Aug
2014
3
Health Funding and GST
Michael Ferguson needs to reassure Tasmanians that every dollar allocated to health this year in the Commonwealth GST distribution will be spent on health.
Aug
2014
1
$190 million lost on pokies
The latest poker machine loss figures reveal that Tasmanians lost the equivalent of an average annual salary of $53, 35 on every pokie machine in the state.
