Federal Assistant Minister for Rural Health, David Gillespie, clearly has no idea what will happen when critical rural health services are discontinued.
Police Minister, Rene Hidding, once again showed Tasmanians he would rather continue a failed "war on drugs" than reduce the risk of drug deaths.
Health Minister, Michael Ferguson, has walked away from the government’s plan to take strong action to raise the legal age for smoking.
We know smoking tobacco is the largest cause of preventable death and disease in Australia and it has an incredibly major impact on the health system.
Minister Ferguson has put his personal ideology in the way of preventive health measures in this year's Budget.
The Greens have discussed our energy strategy on numbers of occasions in this House since we tabled it early this year.
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.
Instead of cutting the Health budget, and taking money out of emergency departments, the Greens would reinstate frontline health staff.
