State Budget: Address in Reply
It continues a long-standing tradition of the Tasmanian Greens to present an alternative vision for the future of Tasmania.
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.
Michael Ferguson today claimed it was a Departmental decision to cut funding to Scarlet Alliance, and denied he had anything to do with it.
Minister Ferguson has cut funding to the Tasmanian Sex Worker Project, a frontline preventive health investment that has been running for a decade.
The Health Minister's decision to cut government funding to the Tasmanian Sex Worker Project is at odds with preventive health policy.
Evidence smoking rates in young Tasmanians have risen by 6.7% in the last 3 years is very concerning.
Tasmania's hopes of extra health funding to make up for what we lost under Prime Minister Abbott haven't been realised.
The first Turnbull Budget has left the vast majority of Tasmanians out in the cold.
The Government announced their plans for a controlled access scheme for medicinal cannabis over the weekend.
Both Liberal and Labor parties have refused to support a Greens' move to establish a Parliamentary inquiry into water management in Tasmania.