Launceston in Health Crisis
Nine of eleven specialists and six senior nursing staff have resigned, retired or significantly reduced their hours.
Nine of eleven specialists and six senior nursing staff have resigned, retired or significantly reduced their hours.
Minister Ferguson has put his personal ideology in the way of preventive health measures in this year's Budget.
The Minister for Health made what can only be construed as some misleading statements in the House yesterday about the question I asked him in question time.
The evidence shows pill testing will keep our young people safe from harmful drugs and it has the support of the Police Association.
Liberal backbencher Sarah Courtney MP's claims that Greens have forgotten northern Tasmania in our Alternative Budget is rubbish.
The Police Minister, Rene Hidding, today refused out of hand to consider pill testing measures at festivals as a way of protecting young people from harm.
The Greens have discussed our energy strategy on numbers of occasions in this House since we tabled it early this year.
It continues a long-standing tradition of the Tasmanian Greens to present an alternative vision for the future of Tasmania.
In the policy and parameter statements in budget paper 1 for this year there is a policy item for Tasmanian Health Service additional funding of $10 million.
Instead of cutting the Health budget, and taking money out of emergency departments, the Greens would reinstate frontline health staff.