Finfish Farming Environmental Standards – Disallowance
We have a long and sorry history on this island of government and its entities being too close to industry.
Aug
2024
13
Environment
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Aug
2024
13
Rights of Nature
I rise today to speak about an area of evolving legal development, which is the rights of nature.
Aug
2024
8
Halls Hut – Management
Heritage Tasmania, Parks, and ministers have been asked to step up and save the heritage-listed Halls Hut at Lake Malbena.
Aug
2024
6
This Vanishing World: Photography of Olegas Truchanas – QVMAG Exhibition & The Amy Sherwin Fund Committee
Honourable Speaker, This Vanishing World: Photography of Olegas Truchanas, is a new exhibition at Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.
Jul
2024
31
Environmental Defenders
Honourable Speaker, I rise on adjournment to express my support for the fearless people who seek to hold governments and corporations to account for acts of environmental destruction through our courts.
Jul
2024
31
State Coastal Policy
I rise to say how disappointing and surprising it is that Labor does not want to support this motion to release the advice that the government will be using to bring in what would be an extraordinary piece of legislation.
Jul
2024
31
State Coastal Policy
I move that the House (1) Notes the Government's view, expressed in the opening paragraph on its consultation webpage that 'The State Coastal Policy 1996 (SCP) is a critically important part of the State's Resource Management and Planning System (RMS) and has served the State well in protecting the coast and providing for sustainable development…'
Jul
2024
31
State Coastal Policy – Transparency of Advice Received
To provide retrospective approval for a development that would otherwise be refused because it contravenes the State Coastal Policy, you have released a draft bill for consultation before tabling it in this place.
Jul
2024
30
National Tree Day at Jacks Flat
Honourable Speaker. I rise tonight to talk about the enormous progress that we have had on the ecosystem restoration front right across Australia during the past week.
Jul
2024
17
Coastal Changes an Unsubstantiated Backward Step
The release of draft legislation to retrospectively approve a wharf through sensitive dune systems on Robbins Island demonstrates exactly what many experts and coastal communities feared – government is bulldozing long-established environmental settings at the behest of a multi-national corporation.