It is apt that we are debating a housing affordability bill in a week that has been dominated by questions on the response to housing and homelessness.
There is a surge in the budget allocation that runs out next year for child safety services.
We have heard a range of views presented in the community through the media, through email, some phone calls, and there is a range of views.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a Second Reading speech for the Greens' Police Offences Amendment (Begging) Bill, to remove the offence of begging in Tasmania.
The Tasmanian Parliament will have the opportunity to eliminate the criminal offence of begging in Greens’ Private Members’ Time next week.
The Greens tabled a bill today that would end the classist persecution of the poor by removing the crime of begging from the statute books.
Hobart has become Australia's least affordable capital city - the hardest place to both find and afford a home in the rental market.
The Tasmanian Greens support calls from Community Legal Centres for Tasmania to change the way fines are structured.
The Greens today tabled a bill to amend the Police Offences Act 1935 to remove a provision that makes criminals of people who are forced to beg for money.
There is a provision in the Police Offences Act which effectively makes criminals of the destitute and homeless.
