Joining us in Parliament, out on the lawns, over at Elizabeth St Pier & on screens across the country, are Tasmanians - victim survivors & people who love them.
Children are again being locked up at Ashley for 23 hours in a day because you cannot properly staff the place.
Revelations that children at Ashley Youth Detention Centre are once again facing rolling lockdowns of 23 hours a day are disturbing and distressing.
Across Tasmania, child safety workers have walked off the job today due to the Liberals’ failure to resource this critical service.
Many aspects of it – including appointing and empowering regulators, as well as the broader application of the principles, are welcome additions.
With the backdrop of the Commission of Inquiry, this National Child Protection Week is a particularly sombre one in Tasmania
The role of an opposition is to hold government to account on critical matters of public interest. That is not the case in Tasmania’s Parliament.
The Rockliff Government, particularly Minister Roger Jaensch, have been dragging their collective heels on closing the Ashley Youth Detention Centre for a year.
This is a very significant statement from the Premier that wraps up a number of necessary and, in a number of cases, long overdue reforms.
The Victorian Education Department is protecting young Victorians during the current Covid wave by requiring all students aged 8 and over to wear masks.
