The most recent figures by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in their Elective Surgery Waiting Times 2015-16 report are terrifying.
I rise to put some more context to the report the Minister for Health conducted last year as part of the patients' access initiative Patients First.
We are now living through a time when the environmental challenges we are facing as an island and as a community are very, very significant.
I rise to draw the attention of the House to the very large public meeting held in Triabunna last Sunday that I attended.
Madam Speaker, I support seeking of leave to suspend Standing Orders so Ms Giddings and I can table together the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016.
Under a neoliberal market-first privatisation ideology, the minister has systematically cut the funds to the Health department.
I rise to inform the House about an incredibly large and very successful public meeting that was held in the Hobart Town Hall a week ago on 8 November.
That the ministerial statement on forestry misleads Tasmanians over the alleged need to allow loggers into 357 000 hectares of high conservation value forest.
Across Australia, approximately 15 000 bottles and cans are littered or thrown into landfill every minute, amounting to 8 billion containers each year.
The Peter Murrell Conservation Area in Kingston is facing the prospect of a new sewerage pipeline to be installed through it by TasWater.
