We know that life for transgender and intersex people can be extraordinarily hard. You can face discrimination, vilification, transphobia.
In the mid-1980s I did a university degree, part of which involved a women's studies course.
It is a bill to remove the voice of Tasmanians from debate about this most central part of our capital city.
We have before us a bill which is the bare minimum reflection of what the people of Australia told their parliaments to do last year.
It is disappointing for people in Hobart, Greater Hobart and Tasmania to have been so thoroughly shut out of this process at this point.
The takeover bid by the state last year came on the back of the very poor relationship this minister had for the preceding three years.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a Second Reading speech for the Greens' Police Offences Amendment (Begging) Bill, to remove the offence of begging in Tasmania.
We have gender equality in the Tasmanian Parliament. Women and girls are encouraged to aspire to success and to be treated equally.
We have concerns, which we raised last year, regarding putting off the requirement for a review of the wholesale electricity price.
The Greens will be supporting the Traffic and Related Legislation Amendment Bill 2018. We recognise it is a common sense change.
